As National Safe Boating Week draws to a close we are again tragically reminded of the dangers of cold water immersion.\u00a0 According to published reports, the body of a missing Connecticut kayaker was found on the beach in Amagansett and two others paddling in Maine also lost their lives.\u00a0 All three were reported to to be wearing PFDs (personal floatation device) but were apparently not sufficiently protected from cold water.\u00a0 In addition two swimmers were lost within miles of one another on Wednesday near Jones Inlet.\u00a0 They were reportedly caught in strong rip currents and pulled away from shore.\u00a0 No doubt the cold water temps were a contributing factor as more than a dozen persons needed to be rescued in the same area.\u00a0 Finally, on a better note, Town Bay Constables, responding to a Mayday call from a nearby boater, were able to rescue a capsized kayker clinging to his boat as he was in danger of being swept out of Jones Inlet.<\/p>\n
Every kayaker owes it to themselves to get some professional instruction on how to enjoy our sport in a safe manner and not learn their lessons the hard way, or even worse pay,\u00a0 the ultimate price.\u00a0 Always dress for immersion and wear your PFD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As National Safe Boating Week draws to a close we are again tragically reminded of the dangers of cold water immersion.\u00a0 According to published reports, the body of a missing Connecticut kayaker was found on the beach in Amagansett and two others paddling in Maine also lost their lives.\u00a0 All three were reported to to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}