Re: a close call at 3rd Ave last Saturday -- Mark Tischler

From: Martin Frankel (mdf@sgi.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Fri Sep 03 1999 - 15:44:32 PDT


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Subject: Re: a close call at 3rd Ave last Saturday -- Mark Tischler 
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Now I'm feeling guilty that I didn't post about an similar experience
I had. I was in the channel on a 4.2 day during an ebb and made the
mistake of crossing through the wind shadow of a barge. I made a few
failed waterstart attempts due to the light & shifty wind in the
shadow. After a minute or so I heard something behind me. I turned
around and was shocked to see the side of the barge heaving up out of
the water and then crashing down just ten or twenty yards away. (I
hadn't even thought that the ebb tide would suck me toward the barge.)
In panic, I grabbed my gear and swam as hard as I could, passing just
a few yards from one end of the barge. If I had been sucked under the
barge in those conditions, I really don't think I would have lived
long enough to drown.

Please treat those barges with UTMOST RESPECT.

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Martin Frankel     ||||     mdf@sgi.com-DeleteThis     ||||     (650)933-6191

"The tragedy of Galois is that he could have contributed so much more to mathematics if he'd only spent more time on his marksmanship."



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