The US Coast Guard website now contains minutes from the National
Boating Safety Advisory Council
regarding "automatic inflating sponsons" to rescue any canoe or kayak,
April and October 2002. About 200 US deaths ago.

A canoe or kayak without sponsons has no safety and no rescue means.
Misleading, deadly, and fraudulent rescues cannot depend on practice.
Rescue and safety must simply work, like seatbelts in cars.

No rescue, no safety for any canoe or kayak (even wearing a PFD, if
the rescue is not timely.)

These "automatic inflating", $50, CO2 Rescue Life Raft Sponsons Cannot
be Marketed Now in the Industry Climate, Sponsored by the US Coast
Guard, Despite the USCG Website.

Note that these "automatic inflating" CO2 gas Sponsons are much larger
(80 lbs. buoyancy, 5 second inflation, and back-up oral inflation).
They are stowed in 2 tiny containers, A in above diagram. These 1 lb.
containers are concealed at the gunwale lines of canoes and kayaks,
and are almost unnoticed, (except for the "EMERGENCY RESCUE" labels),
until capsize or other emergencies. All CO2 sponsons are manufactured
identically to Coast Guard approved PFDs.

But sponsons have a much simpler air bladder and container: A pair of
"automatic inflating sponsons" costs less than $50 US, installed at
the factory. A pair would retail at a price comparable to one
inflatable PFD.

You create a superior lifesaving device that transforms any canoe or
kayak: Capable of saving any drowning victim in the water, not just
any paddler victims! Instead of being an "Accident Waiting to Happen",
any canoe or kayak becomes a superior rescue device! To rescue any
victim who has fallen in the water. Superior in use to any devices now
employed by Rescue Professionals!

This canoe has one sponson deliberately set higher, to ensure maximum
flooding (about 3,000 lbs.). The 7 and 10 year old girls paddle this
canoe at about 2 knots, and can pick up victims in the water from at
least 2 other canoes, like any Life Raft. Set the one sponson properly
(lower), and the canoe is almost entirely self-bailing, by leaning on
one sponson!

This canoe is nearly 18 feet long and weighs 46 lbs. due to carbon
fibre etc. It cost about $1000 US used, at time of purchase (year
2000), after many brutal years as a rental canoe. It will live longer
than me or you. I bought it after my "guide" friend persisted for
several years that I needed it. He was right.

Canoes are remarkable craft. They are the simplest form of watercraft,
and with properly-sized sponsons they are remarkably safe. Safe enough
to be superior in all respects to Professional water and ice rescue
devices (that use sponson technology to safely rescue any victims!)
Kayaks work similarly, but they lack the greater capacity in rescues
of any victims who find themselves in the water.

Now, why would the American Canoe Association (ACA) not try to raise
canoe and kayak sales through rescue and safety applications? They
have deprived 1000 dead Americans (and about 500 dead Canadians) of
their lives since 1993, when all major authors and magazines
recommended sponsons!

This kayaker can wash his hair. These canoes and kayaks normally
inflate CO2 Sponsons while righted but fully flooded, as in capsizing
conditions. However, if upside-down, a sponson, having only 80 lbs.
buoyancy, is easily sunk by 2 little kids or one adult: Self-righting
the canoe or kayak in seconds. The flooded interior makes re-entry
much easier for victims: Much Lower In The Water. And creates powerful
neutral buoyancy ballast, that makes canoes and kayaks more stable
than with sponsons alone.

The heavy canoes and kayaks are then almost invulnerable to capsizing
waves and winds! (Paddled fully flooded over many miles of breaking
seas.)

Lifesaving Scandal

There is simply no equivalent in the 20th century or the 19th century
regarding this extremely high death rate. Death Rates one could only
expect through deliberate anti-safety and anti-social policies.
Compa 11,000 British sailors dead in overloaded and heavily insured
ships 1879-1899, in the largest merchant marine in the world. This is
1 sailor in 60 dying violently in water; in mining, same period, 1
dead miner in 315, both over a lifetime of exposure. Good thing that
canoes and kayaks are a small and declining US industry! And that
people don't canoe and kayak very often, since drowning deaths,
despite PFDs are far, far greater than for any other boat type!

In Canada, the death rate is much higher than the US, thanks to the
Canadian Coast Guard covering up a study by a Canadian Search and
Rescue Officer who found exactly the same sponson safety reported by
the US Military Special Forces Kayaking Study (10th Airborne) in 1994.
Result: About 500 Canadian canoe and kayak deaths.

This study and others will stand with "Hitler's Willing Executioners"
and Milgram's studies at Yale, regarding the darker aspects of
humanity. You simply have no other instances of such a high death
rate, easily remedied, by such a small "murder cult". I repeat what I
stated above: "There is plenty of "macho" ego, regarding instruction
that no judge or jury can accomplish. There are however, plentiful
arguments that the victims deserved to die, as a Darwinian
perspective."

These little girls can quickly rescue a half dozen adults from the
water, since the adults weigh just about the same as their immersed
volume in water. This canoe cannot sink totally flooded! Police and
other RESCUE PROFESSIONALS use sponsons to create devices that are
smaller and less mobile, to rescue victims in tricky water and ice
rescues. Canoes are superior rescue craft with proper self-rescue
sponsons: Paddled easily at 2 knots fully flooded, by 2 kids standing
up. Set the far sponson in the above picture properly (lower), and the
canoe is almost entirely self-bailing by leaning on one sponson!

Canoes (and kayaks too), can save many lives, not just kill! Why kill
1000 US citizens in 10 years? Who gains from those cruel and easily
preventable deaths?

http://www.bconnex.net/~timkayak/canoe.html

Tim


Brian Nystrom wrote in message ...
lcopps wrote:
I've told you guys. Now the beast has woken!

Two things:

1) Don't give him credit by calling him a "beast". He's just an idiot.

2) You can dramatically reduce the waste of bandwidth by not quoting his
diatribe.