"Tim Ingram" wrote in message
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Notice how Brian and Rick want canoes and kayaks as dangerous as
possible.

Then they take money from the victims before they die. Then blame them
for their own deaths despite:


Hey, Brian,

That's my money! Give it back, will you.

US Coast Guard report 071-01: "Canoes and kayaks have by far the
highest fatality rates per million hours of exposure (.42) as any
other boat type". (This figure may be far too low, considering the
death statistics of the Ford/Firestone scandal, over a similar time
frame, with many more vehicles, many, many more use/hours daily, and
only 200 deaths.)


Notices how Tim uses aggragate data to foster a mistaken belief that canoes
and kayaks are dangerous. The number of sea kayak deaths, canoe deaths, and
white water boating deaths are very different. Sea kayaks, for example have
a considerably lower rate of injury/fatality than either of the other boats,
but for these are not separated in his statement. Sponsons have no practical
use (self-inflating, or not) on ww boating. Even Tim had to concede this
during the previous sponson wars. Of course, WW boating (kayaks and canoes)
are where the majority of deaths occur. If you remove all ww boating deaths
(which are the result of people intentionally seeking more dangerous
conditions where sponsons cannot be used), the statistics look very
different.

"A total of 105 canoeists and kayakers drowned in 1998. Canoes and
kayaks have the highest fatality rate of all boat types ñ double the
rate of personal watercraft and 4 times higher than open motorboats."
(Before the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation of
the U.S. House of Representatives, May 15, 2001, BOAT/U.S.)


You've said this thousands of times. We've heard you, read your invalid
data, and find you annoyingly stupid. You can go away now.

Rick