"Paul Skoczylas" wrote in message
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"Roger Houston" wrote in message
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For whatever it's worth...

I spent years as a member of a Dive / Rescue team in an inland
recreational waterways enviroment.

We never recovered a drowning victim who'd been wearing flotation.

We used to say that we'd never recovered a body that wouldn't have been
alive if s/he'd been wearing a PFD, but then a carload of kids drive into
a partially frozen river. I don't think even PFDs would have helped
them.

There are lots of ways to drown in white water while wearing a PFD.
Anyone who's been around white water long enough knows someone or at least
knows of someone who has drowned with a PFD on. Often it's because of
being trapped under water by the current (in a strainer, for example).
The one person I knew personally who died wasn't trapped under, though.
It was just enough repeated trips under in really rough water.

-Paul

What about getting a whack on the noggin?