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1. How to keep warm while kayaking in winter | Choosing kit for canoeing and kayaking in the cold

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   Every time winter rolls around you have to decide, are you going to hide in the gym for months on end or are you going to get out there on the river, paddle hard and enjoy the lovely outdoors?

2. Ocean Surf Ski Paddler Safety Precautions - Tips and Video

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   Following the tragic death of Mark Feather off East London, Sea Rescue (South Africa) has been asked for recommended safety precautions and tips on what to do if search and rescue is needed.

3. White water safety - You are not a victim

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   We are humans and we go paddling so inevitably our paddling lives have cultures built around them. These are things that have developed or evolved over the (relatively) short time that kayaking as a sport or pastime has existed.

4. Life jacket or buoyancy aid? Know the difference

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   Press coverage after a canoeing tragedy tends to focus on the safety precautions that those involved took. Often one reads the throwaway line ‘the victim was not wearing a lifejacket’, journalistic short-hand for ‘the person involved took inadequate precautions and therefore bears some responsibility for the fact that he or she perished’.

5. Pat Keller’s vision on river safety

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   Earlier this week I read an 'open letter' from Pat Keller (25 year, USA) where he asks for people's attention on a crucial point of code in the wild world of water.