See the 1st 2 messages after Kait O'Hara, analyst hired by the US
Coast Guard, requested information from these august groups. Steve
Scarborough and Mr Reichart come to mind. The stats per 100,000 far
exeed US vehicle deaths.

In fact, canoe and kayak deaths far exceed any death rate in US
history. As I have said before, this high rate is only possible by
means of a deliberate and planned intention to take the lives of US
citizens.

They are kids: Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, YMCA campers; and moms, dads,
brothers and sisters.

The moral ethic of these newsgroups, as I have said before, would make
Himmler, or another hate-filled person content. It is very easy to
murder innocent people, who are unsuspecting, and naturally trust that
the instructors' lobby would not try to kill them, or mislead the US
Coast Guard.

Water is an especially deadly MO (rate of body heat loss 25 times the
rate in air.) Canoes and kayaks without a built-in means of
self-rescue are extremely deadly.

Instruction is a murderous bait and switch scam, detailed in the
following book for all recent canoe and kayak instruction books: Canoe
and Kayak Scam Kills 1000 Americans: US Coast Guard Studies Device to
Save Victims paste in address bar of browser if link doesn't work:
http://www.1stbooks.com/bookview/16818)

Tim

Reference: http://www.bconnex.net/~timkayak/canoe.html