04-24-2020, 11:47 AM
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, when I launched off my boat last year I was in about 4 fow, south - east pocket of Mantua. I had gone in head first, and I have a vivid memory of my head coming back above the surface and at the same time wondering why my vest had not inflated, then.............POW.....it inflated
. Total time in the water from impact to inflate couldn't have been more than 10 seconds.[font]
Hey Lynn, I think I remember hearing about the episode falling in the dark, but I never knew about the one with Pat.........looking back those incidents can be funny, maybe even a bit embarrassing maybe. But they are all good examples of how valuable a auto inflating PFD is. I switched from a standard life jacket to an auto inflating one the same week that the man drowned at Willard several years ago. Where his boat was found still running at the wall, his life jacket still in the boat, but he wasn't found and recovered for about 3 days.
I not only switched to auto inflating pfd's in my boat, but made a hard and fast rule for ALL boat occupants.......If you are in the boat, your PFD is correctly worn. And have stuck to that rule ever since. Darn glad I did last year
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, when I launched off my boat last year I was in about 4 fow, south - east pocket of Mantua. I had gone in head first, and I have a vivid memory of my head coming back above the surface and at the same time wondering why my vest had not inflated, then.............POW.....it inflated. Total time in the water from impact to inflate couldn't have been more than 10 seconds.[font]Hey Lynn, I think I remember hearing about the episode falling in the dark, but I never knew about the one with Pat.........looking back those incidents can be funny, maybe even a bit embarrassing maybe. But they are all good examples of how valuable a auto inflating PFD is. I switched from a standard life jacket to an auto inflating one the same week that the man drowned at Willard several years ago. Where his boat was found still running at the wall, his life jacket still in the boat, but he wasn't found and recovered for about 3 days.
I not only switched to auto inflating pfd's in my boat, but made a hard and fast rule for ALL boat occupants.......If you are in the boat, your PFD is correctly worn. And have stuck to that rule ever since. Darn glad I did last year
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"OCD = Obsessive Catfish Disorder "
Or so it says on my license plate holder
Or so it says on my license plate holder