TimIngram wrote:
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to save themselves. Go ahead, test a court with rolling, paddle
floating, canoe over canoe, capistrano flip, paddle a floooded canoe
or kayak to shore. The depth of perfidy of your canoe and kayak death
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That's funny, I just came back from a few weeks at scout camp and every week
on what's called 'Wet Wednesday', hundreds of kids tip over their canoe and
do canoe over canoe rescues and climb back in... it's a requirement for
canoeing merit badge... hundreds, perhaps thousands per week did it all
summer long to earn the merit badge at the camp I was at (and I'm sure the
same is true for countless other camps for Boy and Girl Scouts across the
world)...

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Also, I've been on a jury and I can get back in a canoe after being flung
into the water (although the last time I did it was at an ACA Canoe instructor
class I took...

These are some of the things the kids do...
e. In deep water, exit the canoe and get back in without capsizing.
f. Capsize the canoe and demonstrate how staying with a capsized canoe
will support both paddlers.
g. Swim, tow, or push a swamped canoe 50 feet to shallow water. In the
shallow water, empty the swamped canoe and reenter it.
h. In deep water, rescue a swamped canoe and its paddlers by emptying the
swamped canoe and helping the paddlers safely reenter their boat
without capsizing.


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John Nelson
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