10-31-2013, 12:30 PM | #1 |
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Kayaker Rescued
Off-duty firefighters rescue kayaker Apparently he and his dog capsized, his waders filled with water and his self-inflating life jacket failed to work. After 30 minutes of panic and yelling for help he was heard and pulled to safety. After calming down, he got back on his yak and went to collect his hoops.
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Dangerous out there...
Does anyone have access to the full story?
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Off-duty firefighters rescue kayaker
2013-10-30 By ERIC HARTLEY, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER He couldn't see anything, so he asked his friend and boss, Mark Flores, if he'd heard it. Schultz, a 12-year veteran of the Orange County Fire Authority, always gets low marks for hearing in his regular checkups. But he knew what he was hearing Saturday night. Schultz yelled to the next boat, 150 feet or so away, to ask if everyone there was OK. They were - and they hadn't heard anyone calling for help. Schultz turned on his boat's 200,000-candlepower spotlight and swung it down the mile-long jetty. About 300 feet from his boat, he saw an empty green kayak. Schultz and Flores, an OCFA captain whose 11-year-old son was aboard, quickly motored closer. "We found the guy clinging to his kayak, and a dog was swimming circles around him," Schultz said Monday. The kayaker, Chris, had on a self-inflating life jacket that hadn't worked. His waders had filled with water, weighing him down, and he couldn't get them off or climb back on his kayak with them on. "He was panicked. He was scared, and he could only speak in, like, one- or two-word sentences," Schultz said. Flores secured the kayak and pulled Chris' 20-pound dog onto the boat while Schultz talked Chris around to the back of the boat and pulled him in. Chris said he'd been yelling for help for 30 minutes. Another half-hour in the 60-degree water and he might have died, Schultz said. Schultz offered to call the Sheriff's Department's Harbor Patrol, but Chris declined. Schultz thinks Chris was worried he'd get in trouble for not having a whistle on his life jacket or flares. Chris seemed OK, so Schultz and Flores didn't press the point. After half an hour of calming down, Chris got back in his kayak and went to collect his own hoops, which took half an hour or so. Schultz and Flores told him to swing back by the boat before heading in, and he did. They never got Chris' last name, but he said he was from Dana Point. Capt. Steve Concialdi, a fire authority spokesman, said Schultz and Flores went "above and beyond the call of duty." Copyright 2013 Orange County Register All Rights Reserved
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10-31-2013, 02:14 PM | #5 |
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Glad he's OK but why would you hoopnet with your dog? you already have enough to worry about; other boaters, swells, other nets, wind, low-no light, etc.
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the boat guy's thread is on BD. Thank goodness he is okay. Judging by the thread it looks like he might have been in a PA.
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I never NEVER!!!!!! leave home without my paddle float
I even have 2 now now i just need to get inflatable ankle floats
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What happend to his VHF? Read on the other sites his lights gave out due to water damage.
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why not just lose the waders if it was weighing him down? Probably be difficult if they were neoprene, but if they were breathable waders you can get out of them pretty easy without a wader belt used.
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10-31-2013, 05:27 PM | #11 |
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Everything is easy until you are panicking.
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I often wonder about the wader belt. For it to prevent water filling in, it would need to be on really tight.
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