Post by Bernard Walsh on Aug 25, 2008 17:34:24 GMT
Conor Ryan [icu] asked that the people involved at temple mills be greatfully thanked ( u kno who u are ).
Personally i'm glad i was there as a number of different rescue senarios arose eg, boat sizes, people reactions etc .
When we are on a club trip there are normally 2 r 3 people whom we rely on ( too heavily ) to come too our assistance, on Sun due to the frequency of capsises we each had to deal with a rescue alone and you had to rely on your own judgment how best to deal with it.
As indivudal paddlers when we are offered any opportunity to improve another aspect of our personal ability (safety) I think it should be grasped to improve ourselves rather than hoping that sombody else will have done it for us, remmember the rivers will always be there to be paddled, safety experience well !!!!!!!
Personally i'm glad i was there as a number of different rescue senarios arose eg, boat sizes, people reactions etc .
When we are on a club trip there are normally 2 r 3 people whom we rely on ( too heavily ) to come too our assistance, on Sun due to the frequency of capsises we each had to deal with a rescue alone and you had to rely on your own judgment how best to deal with it.
As indivudal paddlers when we are offered any opportunity to improve another aspect of our personal ability (safety) I think it should be grasped to improve ourselves rather than hoping that sombody else will have done it for us, remmember the rivers will always be there to be paddled, safety experience well !!!!!!!