This one still baffles me.
When I moved to Tennessee, I started to see news dealing with kayak-related accidents and deaths. I mean, I am not surprised that bad things happen in bodies of water, after all I lived in Florida almost three decades and news about people getting injured and killed in boat and jet-ski accidents are plentiful. But those are by far engine powered vessels (there were a couple of incidents with sail boats I remember), with a good chance that mass quantity of intoxicants are involved, but here we are talking paddle-powered tiny boats where the only way you can go over 10 m.p.h. is if you fall of a waterfall. Yet, nary a week goes by that we do not hear in the news about somebody dying or in need of rescue from one of these contraptions. Percy Priest Lake should be renamed Death By Kayak Lake because most of the stories happen there.
If I am gathering the info right, the issue is that your lower body is basically trapped inside a floating coffin that rolls over on half a chance, putting you underwater if you are not careful and even if you are wearing a life vest. At that point, if you don’t know how to upright yourself, you will drown. I am no nautical expert but, can we put like very small pontoons extended to the sides of a kayak like training wheels?
Just a thought.
certain ones are built like that and SHOULD be used only by trained professionals….. but have yall noticed how unbelievably STUPID people have become???? things like this I call “culling the herd”…. oh, that and the war on personal responsibility…. nobody is responsible for their idiocy… except white republicans, we are responsible for EVERYTHING.
Got to remember we still have the progeny of those who stuck their fingers into pencil sharpeners and electrical outlets.