NYCkayaker -Safety in HRP

[Chalu Kim]

Great idea

All these ideas sure create a solid structure to hang your minds and 
cover everyone's thumb....

I mean it genuinely.


Erik Baard wrote:
> Perhaps in addition to ladders and perhaps rings, we could have 
> emergency phones set up on the waterfront to summon help immediately? 
> It seems like overkill to some, but I would rather have access and a 
> safety net than prohibitions and barriers. In short, accept risk and 
> diminish it through resources and intelligence, rather than avoid risk 
> through institutionally-induced paralysis.
>
> Erik Baard
>
> http://www.licboathouse.org <http://www.licboathouse.org/>
> http://www.naturecalendar.com
>  
>
>     -------- Original Message --------
>     From: bonnie13 at earthlink.net
>     Date: Tue, October 09, 2007 1:35 pm
>     To: "'NYCKayaker'" <nyckayaker at rockandwater.net>
>
>
>
>     >BTW, refusing to put out ladders or life rings is
>     absolutely...sputter sputter.
>     >
>     >Didn't some young fellow drown off the Christopher Street Pier a
>     couple of years ago because he dropped a briefcase with some
>     important papers in the water, and in a moment of not-thinking
>     jumped in to retrieve it?
>     in.
>     >
>     >
>
>     I did not make that up.
>     http://www.thevillager.com/villager_128/policeblotter.html
>
>     Says he was 10 yards out when the current got him. In that case, a
>     ladder probably wouldn't have done him any good, but if somebody
>     could have thrown him a life ring he might still be alive! .
>     Actually that seems like a really good argument for a life
>     ring/ladder combo - somebody on shore throws some flotation & that
>     gives even a weak swimmer a much better chance of making it to the
>     next ladder the river takes them too - or if they can't maintain
>     the presence of mind to look for a ladder, it at least buys time
>     for somebody on the water to get to them.
>
>     Yes, jumping in the Hudson to save your poetry may make you a
>     candidate for a Darwin award - but for pete's sake, he made one
>     stupid split-second not-thinking decision, and it was fatal.
>
>     In the face of that, the Trust's anti-safety-precaution arguments
>     seem awfully cheap.
>
>     Thus endeth the rant.
>
>     Bonnie
>
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