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This riveting book offers 20 harrowing, real-life tales of sea kayaking accidents that will not only keep readers on the edge of their seats, but also instruct them with potentially life-saving lessons.
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The book is just the beginning...
As co-author of Deep Trouble I wish to thank all the people who've read it and recommend it to their friends and other kayakers they meet. I know many of you have even bought a second or third copy after giving yours away to clueless kayak strangers you've met on paddling trips, ferry rides, etc. Keep spreading the word, and maybe someday we'll have fewer accidents to write about! If you have a story of a learning experience that you are willing to share with other kayakers, please write it up, and email it to me. If reading the book makes you realize that your training/experience/skill-testing hasn't prepared you for what could have happened on trips you've taken, I invite you to come take lessons with me at the Kayak Academy in Seattle, WA USA. Just as this book provides vital information that you won't read in how-to manuals, my school was founded to provide lessons that exceed the industry standards in order to address the kinds of safety problems that occurred to the paddlers in Deep Trouble (as well as many others not yet written about). As the book illustrates, the key to being safe is to stay within your limits, and I'll add to that by saying if your limits are too limited for what you want to do, then you need to increase your skill...take lessons, practice, and find safe ways to test your limits. Thanks, George Gronseth, Founder of the Kayak Academy (Established in 1991)
As co-author of Deep Trouble I wish to thank all the people who've read it and recommend it to their friends and other kayakers they meet. I know many of you have even bought a second or third copy after giving yours away to clueless kayak strangers you've met on paddling trips, ferry rides, etc. Keep spreading the word, and maybe someday we'll have fewer accidents to write about! If you have a story of a learning experience that you are willing to share with other kayakers, please write it up, and email it to me. If reading the book makes you realize that your training/experience/skill-testing hasn't prepared you for what could have happened on trips you've taken, I invite you to come take lessons with me at the Kayak Academy in Seattle, WA USA. Just as this book provides vital information that you won't read in how-to manuals, my school was founded to provide lessons that exceed the industry standards in order to address the kinds of safety problems that occurred to the paddlers in Deep Trouble (as well as many others not yet written about). As the book illustrates, the key to being safe is to stay within your limits, and I'll add to that by saying if your limits are too limited for what you want to do, then you need to increase your skill...take lessons, practice, and find safe ways to test your limits. Thanks, George Gronseth, Founder of the Kayak Academy (Established in 1991)
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Since its beginnings, sea kayaking has been a relatively safe sport, with few injuries or fatalities. Read the first page
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This book is a must-read for every kayaker, not just sea kayakers. These true, white-knuckle accounts drive home the point that the unexpected can and does happen, often with tragic results. It's too bad the kayakers who perished or were on death's doorstep in these stories did not have the benefit of reading this book first. It certainly would have sharpened their judgement and kept them out of harm's way.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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I just can't let the first posted review stand alone. This is a book I read twice. Not because it wasn't well written. It was. It is so densely packed with stuff I needed to know that once through was not enough.
The narratives are well crafted: concise, gripping - I felt like I was right there in the cockpit battling the waves, shaking off the salt spray, and bracing for dear life. The savvy sidebars are packed with right-on-the-mark stay/get out of deep trouble pointers...just the antidote for an anxious reader jarred out his complacency by these often harrowing cautionary tales.
The book suceeded in a way I believe the authors intended. It's made me a safer paddler. I make many fewer assumptions that things out there will go well. I prepare for the worst and cut a lot fewer corners. I paddle alone a lot less often. I DRIVE away from a launch site, when conditions look borderline too challenging. The book has improved my judgment, doing the right things at the right time, without my getting wet. As an advanced beginner sea kayaker, I know I am at a high risk interval in my development as a paddler. The authors have recalibrated my margin of safety. It's a good thing. It's a great book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After my own near-death experience with a kayak I wanted an easier way to learn than the hard way each time. This book takes the lessons from problems that people got into. Some stories of people who died. If you can learn lessons and be better prepared their deaths werent totally in vain.
I'm a better kayaker now and this book has helped with that. At least my mistakes aren't so stupid now
I'm a better kayaker now and this book has helped with that. At least my mistakes aren't so stupid now
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