Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: CARE AND CAUTION!
From: Rchard Comen <rpcomen@mcn.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:14:20 -0800
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020313222030.03dc51f8@pop.alink.net> <016101c1cb19$fce3e820$862d0dce@g4s5g1> <5.1.0.14.0.20020311195946.02f697e8@pop.andara.com> <dg8s8u0b37thfpjjuas8ugv5a5m4knqct6@4ax.com> <005501c1ca0f$e76a2d20$633f4d18@gv.shawcable.net>

All the below applies here in the Mendocino area where I live. My son is in
ocean rescue with the Mendocino fire dept and they respond several times a
year to people swept from the rocks while photographing on large surf days.
The safest suggestion is to buy a post card.

Richard
Mendocino Ca


>At 10:48 PM 3/13/02 -0800, Jim Brick wrote:
>>Every year, tourists and other ocean neophytes lose their life along our 
>>California coast. I cannot tell you how many people I have warned, over the 
>>years. Families with kids, on the open coast, not watching the waves. They 
>>come in sets and rogue waves are a fact, not fiction, and are more 
>>prevalent than people think. They are usually responsible for folks being 
>>washed off the shore, never to be seen again. Sometimes all of the kids, or 
>>whole families.
>>
>
>AND that Pacific Ocean is mighty cold!  Folks used to the much more clement
>Atlantic often misjudge just how chilly the water is on the Left Coast and
>end up hypothermic.  
>
>I finished High School when my parents lived in Marin County.  I got caught
>more than once by rogue waves -- but, then, I was a teen-ager and
>impervrious ...
>
>Marc
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +276/343-7315
>Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!
>
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