Capsized boat!
mr.sumo.snr
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I67A21EA4
Happened just down the road from me - it turns out that some nearby
Australian rafting instructors were the first to jump in the river to help
the students - none of whom were wearing life-jackets! Yet another
remarkable way Japan tries to kill off its youth!
Thank god the accident happened to out-of-town Junior High students. In
this city the 'river boat trip' (funakudari) is for Grade 4 Elementary
students.
The "school trip to climb a mountain" (tozan) season is upon us - wonder
how many kids will end up in hospital this year.
jonathan
Brett Robson
>
>This was reported on the NHK news during the baseball yesterday morning
>
>http://makeashorterlink.com/?I67A21EA4
>
>Happened just down the road from me - it turns out that some nearby
>Australian rafting instructors were the first to jump in the river to help
Shame that wasn't mentioned in the story. If it had been the Aussie instructors
at fault I am sure it would have been mentioned.
BTW, the guy that killed the Japanese girl in Adelaide pleaded guilty last week.
---
"2 out of 3 ain't bad" - Meat Loaf
"1 out 2^64 is a real bitch" - Original
Declan Murphy
> Happened just down the road from me - it turns out that some nearby
> Australian rafting instructors were the first to jump in the river to help
> the students - none of whom were wearing life-jackets! Yet another
> remarkable way Japan tries to kill off its youth!
Isn't this the run from just below the bridge at Tenryukyou down to
Karakasa on the Iida line? All those boats seat about 25 or so, and
nobody ever wears life jackets, myself included. I'm scratching my head
thinking how the hell did they manage to capsize one of those things. In
the upper portion the rapids are so low grade that most of the trips
(I've done it about 15 times) are spent watching the standing boatmen
catch then grill a few ayu on the way, before we stop at a moored "bar"
enroute for beer refills, and them mosey on downstream clicking cameras
and listening to enka for the remainder of the trip. If the boat
capsized only a kilometer or so from Karakasa - then it would have
capsized in almost still water due to the dam downstream. What gives?
--
"This is the dumbest, most ridiculous idea ever to come out of the
International Rugby Board in its 2000 year history" - Phil Kearns on
drop goal shootouts
Louise Bremner
> If the boat
> capsized only a kilometer or so from Karakasa - then it would have
> capsized in almost still water due to the dam downstream. What gives?
Kids, I suspect. Any boat can be capsized if the passengers try hard
enough.
________________________________________________________________________
Louise Bremner (log at gol dot com)
If you want a reply by e-mail, don't write to my Yahoo address!