kickingfrog

Strong swimmers also die trying to save people drowning. A strong swimmer with a life jacket will likely survive. The likelihood of someone drowning while wearing a life jacket is almost nil (I stress lifejacket and not a pfd). I'd rather someone have a jacket on and deal with those "problems" then not have it on, because we know what those problems are. Strong swimmer or not if you see someone in the water that is in trouble you are likely to try to save them and rational thoughts are not high priorities. I feel like we are circling the bowl and I'm trying not to be argumentative.

Talk of character from someone who was barely a year into a 5 year contract and walks.

If someone isn't a strong swimmer shouldn't they be wearing a lifejacket then? Lifeguards are told to do everything possible before going into the water. The reality is watching your buddy drown or instinctively jumping into the water to save them. Or it's the 2 of you in the water trying to figure out how the bleep do we save ourselves. Every year there are news stories about someone jumping in to save someone only to drown themselves. After the fact, friends and family will say that the person didn't know how to swim.

There is a real good chance that if you try to save someone and you're not wearing a lifejacket you are both dead.

I was the one out in the boat fishing.

At least we don't have these anymore:

Awesome news.

No legal expectation of privacy while out in public.

Great stuff. Like the shot of your dad with the brookie and the SLR around his neck.

The problem with a fool is that you are just about the only one who doesn't know you are a fool.

I wear one most of the time. I got used to wearing a paddling vest doing white water canoeing and with inflatables it's so easy. As it turns out now many of the people I fish with now, except for my brother, can't swim. For me that means 2 things: I'm not likely to be rescued by a non-swimmer and I'm more likely to have to rescue them, assuming either of us is conscious.

Like this?

It only takes a drop of chicken poop to ruin the chicken salad...

I don't understand. Ouch!

A fool. Likely many in the circle of people who know him, knew his was a fool. Now that circle has gotten a whole lot bigger.

This is more along the lines of me charging cars a fee for driving on the road in front of my house and no one doing anything about it. I don't own the road and Essa doesn't own the river.

I questioned the legality of the fee when it was first announced. They township said they could charge me while I was in my canoe using a navigable waterway. I told them were they could put their fee and haven't fished or hunted there since. They'll never miss me but some of the businesses might and that's too bad. I've moved on.

Familiar with their ability to breathe air. With the O2 levels not an issue in the lake I never really thought of it though.

Launch is closed until at least the truck is removed.

http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2014/09/02/tow-truck-driver-run-over-by-his-own-vehicle-vehicle-ends-up-in-kempenfelt-bay A tow-truck driver suffered non-life-threatening injuries after being run over by his own vehicle before it wound up submerged in Barrie's Kempenfelt Bay, Tuesday afternoon. According to Barrie police, the male driver pulled into the lot at the Tiffin Boat Launch shortly after noon and parked the truck facing the water. At that time, police say a person needed to use the launch and when the tow-truck driver went to move his vehicle, there was a malfunction which prevented it from getting into gear. Police say the driver was familiar with this issue and crawled under the truck to rectify the problem. The truck's transmission kicked in at this point, according to police, and it began moving down the launch into the lake, running over the driver. A female passenger in the truck was rescued by someone waiting to use the ramp. Emergency crews responded and the truck driver was taken to Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre with non-life-threatening injuries. His passenger was treated at the scene. Both the Ministry of Labour and Ministry of the Environment have been contacted regarding an investigation. Police say the truck came to rest in approximately 10 feet of water off shore. In the early evening, crews were still on scene trying to salvage the vehicle.

We had a lot of time to discuss what we were seeing. I wonder if they are feeding on something other then fish, because the "rises" were not like fish being busted on the surface. Or a social thing. At least that's what we told ourselves as we left after over an hour of trying to catch them.

Same here. Twice this summer I encountered schools of them on the surface over 30plus feet of water. Nary a strike. The one time there were dozens of fish that we sat on for an hour casting everything we could think of trying to get a bite.

Real beauty. Will your partner in crime be able to add any?

Ya most cops aren't known for the photographic skills except our resident shutterbug/patrolman.