Topic: Why wear a PFD? (Read 3024 times)

July 21, 2014, 01:07:00 PM

http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/man-drowns-after-canoe-flips-on-sacramento-river/27050838

Absolute shame, but 99.9999% preventable. I've been watching the helicopter continue it's search all morning from my office window, hopefully they can recover the body and bring closure to the family. My dad went over on this same riffle last year in high flows. Prior to launching he threw his PFD in the tankwell and stated he was a 'waterman' and didn't need to wear it. I insisted he put it on or we weren't going....good call, as soon as he hit the water those 'waterman' skills were out the window and he was in panic mode. Wear those PFD's guys!!!

July 21, 2014, 02:42:59 PM #1

My nephew bought a Striper Boat from the widow of a man who went out fishing in the delta with an inflatible PFD. I heard it was still uninflated when they fished him out of the water. I always go with an uninflatable PFD anytime your in the water in a Boat or kayak. Hit your head falling in/ fall in and get hypothermia in a few minutes/ fall in and can't climb into boat because of wet clothes/ fall in and get tangled in fishing lines or other rope in water to many ways to buy the farm without a PFD. And I forgot a friend was at Folsom during the summer in his ski boat a drunk idiot TBoned his boat throwing his daughter into the water unconscious luckily she was fished out before she drowned. A PFD is cheap protection from drowning.

July 21, 2014, 03:23:42 PM #2

Dying doing what you love is OK.... Causing others to risk their lives to recover you is not.... PFD saves others lives even if you die... I wear mine all the time...

July 21, 2014, 04:40:46 PM #3

I wear, and trust, my inflatable PFD. I follow a fairly strict regiment of maintenance & inspection of my inf. pfd before & after each trip to ensure it's in good working order. Set it off my accident on the last trip when I hopped in to load my kid on the kayak & forgot I had it on --- pfstttttt Instand yellow horseshoe around my neck. LOL

The manual inflatable vests have the isue of not inflataing for you should you be unable to pull the cord. The older auto vests had a habbit of inflating in the rain. The newer models have been demo'd to not inflate even with a garden sprayer blasting at them yet the first dunking under water they do their thing!

July 21, 2014, 06:46:37 PM #4

A canoe in a river, such as the Sacramento, is not a good idea. No PFD is a stupid idea. A canoe in a river with no PFD and not being able to swim is beyond comprehension.

God rest this person's soul. Hopefully others can be shocked by this reality and take lesson from it.

Any body of water should be respected and has no conscience. Complacency will get you killed.

July 22, 2014, 06:41:41 AM #5

What really amazes me is the people RENTING kayaks from the concessioner at Whiskeytown paddling, carrying but not wearing a PFD. The attitude that "I don't need a PFD because . . ." is just a recipe for disaster. If nothing else and the worst happened, they should think about their loves ones. It could be the difference between an open casket or closed casket funeral.

July 23, 2014, 05:24:54 PM #6

I'm going out in the ocean tomorrow and am wearing a PFD.

July 23, 2014, 07:15:48 PM #7

I just spent a week kayaking on the big island. Well under 50% of paddlers were wearing a pfd. The local culture is against it. I was actually called homosexual in very colorful terms because (among other things apparently) I was wearing one. Mind boggling.

July 23, 2014, 07:32:38 PM #8

We live in a society that if we wear a PFD we are a homosexual?
WTF? What about skinny jeans?

July 23, 2014, 08:27:30 PM #9

Quote from: crash on July 23, 2014, 07:15:48 PM

I was actually called homosexual in very colorful terms because (among other things apparently) I was wearing one. Mind boggling.

WOW!!! So disheartening.

July 23, 2014, 08:53:20 PM #10

I've been called gay for wearing a PFD and the wrong color hat (blue). Idiots and ignoramuses are everywhere. I'm cool if they dont wear a PFD. My friends on the other hand, Wear the goddamn vest.
When my mother was here she wanted to paddle without the PFD because she was always uncomfortable in them. I told her we could shore fish or she could wear one and paddle, so she wore mine and when she got home to Missouri she bought a Soloquist for herself as well and now wears it whenever she goes out. Its a lot about fit.

July 23, 2014, 10:52:02 PM #11

Quote from: Mr.Matt on July 23, 2014, 07:32:38 PM

We live in a society that if we wear a PFD we are a homosexual?
WTF? What about skinny jeans?

Laughing like a Mother Fr!!! good call!!

July 24, 2014, 12:01:37 AM #12

Quote from: Saw

A canoe in a river, such as the Sacramento, is not a good idea. No PFD is a stupid idea. A canoe in a river with no PFD and not being able to swim is beyond comprehension...

Yeah, I don't get it.

July 24, 2014, 08:27:27 AM #13

Perhaps the big Island culture is different because they spend their lives swimming in bathwater; warm and nothing like as angry as our NORCAL coast. There is also that islander testosterone bravado. But if I ever get the opportunity to kayak fish in Hawaii, I will definitely be a haole sissy with a PFD.

July 24, 2014, 10:13:40 AM #14

Quote from: Saw on July 21, 2014, 06:46:37 PM

A canoe in a river, such as the Sacramento, is not a good idea. No PFD is a stupid idea. A canoe in a river with no PFD and not being able to swim is beyond comprehension.

God rest this person's soul. Hopefully others can be shocked by this reality and take lesson from it.

Any body of water should be respected and has no conscience. Complacency will get you killed.

You think that is bad these three should be up for "Stupid of the Year Award"

I was fishing down on the Sac river a couple days ago, a few miles south of Redding, here comes two 20 somethings floating on $5 Walmart float tubes, of course no PFD's, using hands for paddles. I here a third guy yell to his friends, "How come you guys are so far in front of me"? The friends pass by a few minutes later he comes floating up and says, "You see anyplace I can stand up to get out of the water", I help him out. The reason his friends are so far ahead is because his $5 float tube is just about flat. He had no shirt, I could see debris, (sticks, gravel) and big red marks on his side and chest. Not sure what happened but I would say he was fortunate to be alive.

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