Sea Kayaker's Deep Trouble: True Stories and Their Lessons from Sea Kayaker Magazine

Preface by Christopher Cunningham

Introduction: Kayaking Safety; Index to Safety Sidebars

1 Drifting with the Current

2 Another Lesson from the School of Hard Knocks

3 Of Risk, Knowledge, Choice . . . And Special Vulnerability

4 A Tale of Two Rescues

5 The Open Coast, or, All Your Eggs in One Kayak

6 Risks Compounded

7 Sea Caves, Arches, and Narrow Passages

8 Long Swims

9 Rough Passages

10 The Phantom Barge

11 Run-in with a Great White

12 Double Fatality in Prince William Sound

13 Happy Endings

14 Surf Zone Accidents

15 Saved by a Drysuit

16 Vanished

17 Ferry Rescue in the San Juans

18 Rosario Strait Rescue

19 Nightime Accident on Willapa Bay

20 Lessons in Judgment

21 Ice Fall in Blackstone Bay

22 Carried to Safely

Index

About the Authors and Contributors