Translations:AY Honors/Canoeing/Answer Key/84/en

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In event of capsize or Emergency:

  1. If you capsize in still water, stay with the canoe.
  2. If you capsize in swift current, try to get upstream relative to the canoe so that it will not pin you on a rock. A canoe full of water easily weighs 1200 kg2.3 tons, and if it pins you against a rock, you are not going to lift a 1200 kg canoe off yourself. The only other available option is to drown, and that is not a very attractive option at all.
  3. If you find yourself swimming in a rapid, roll onto your back and float with your feet going downstream first and your toes out of the water. This will prevent your foot from catching a rock and it getting trapped. Many people have drowned as a result of foot-entrapment.
  4. Exception to above rule: when potential exists to float into a submerged or partially submerged tree/logs, flip onto your belly, orient yourself head facing downstream, and AGGRESSIVELY swim forward, up, and over the tree or log.
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