NYCkayaker canoe man sinking

[mike]

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1691756,00.html

The lurid tale began on March 21, 2002, when Darwin paddled his red kayak
into the North Sea in front of his seafront home in Seaton Carew, near
Hartlepool. He never returned. An oar drifted ashore the next day, and after
a fruitless search, the shattered remains of his vessel were found on a
local beach six weeks later. Despite this evidence, suspicion lingered that
there was something incongruous about an experienced kayaker drowning on a
day when the sea was, in the words of one member of the rescue effort,
"smooth as a millpond." Even before it emerged that the Darwins had reunited
in Panama, his aunt, Margaret Burns, 80, told the Evening Standard
newspaper, "To be honest I don't believe he ever got wet." She may be right.