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Boat Forum / Paddle Boats / September 2008Strainer Question
Hello, Newbie question, please: If going into an unavoidable "Strainer," what is the generally accepted procedure: head first, or feet first ? I know every situation is different, but was wondering what the standard practice is. Thanks, B. Always head first, swimming as hard as you can and climbing up into the branches as far as you can. If you come up to the strainer and just grab it, you'll end up face-up underneath. Get your hips out of the water. For a rock, feet first is better. Steve > If going into an unavoidable "Strainer," what is the generally accepted > procedure: head first, or feet first ? > I know every situation is different, but was wondering what the standard > practice is. > Always head first, swimming as hard as you can and climbing up into the > branches as far as you can. If you come up to the strainer and just grab [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > - Show quoted text - And if you hit a strainer feet first, your feet will stop and you'll get sucked under and get tangled. Be agressive and FIGHT to get out of the water. Get on your belly, swim into it, reach deep into that sucker and grab hold...your life is in very serious danger. Here's a more intriguing question: if you are getting swept into a strainer while in your boat (kayak or canoe), what do you do? Toss your paddle and grab for the branches, get sideways and high brace into it, stay straight and try to torpedo deep into the strainer and hold on, bail and grab for branches, or what? --riverman > Here's a more intriguing question: if you are getting swept into a > strainer while in your boat (kayak or canoe), what do you do? Toss > your paddle and grab for the branches, get sideways and high brace > into it, stay straight and try to torpedo deep into the strainer and > hold on, bail and grab for branches, or what? Never had to do it, but I think my approach would be the sideways brace into it, then jump as high as I could into the branches. The torpedo approach might work, but if you rode up over the log, your stern might dip down and backender you. I recall a local woman who pinned a C-1 doing that. Steve On Jul 28, 4:57 pm, "cramer...@gmail.com" <cramer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Here's a more intriguing question: if you are getting swept into a > > strainer while in your boat (kayak or canoe), what do you do? Toss [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Steve I guess a lot would depend on the shape of the strainer. If it were a tree, with lots of branches above the water, I might torpedo into it and try to grab something more solid nearer the central trunk. In fact, I seem to remember having done something like that several times on smaller rivers, while in my canoe. These were pine trees with just bare branches, not some fresh downfall with thick leaves. If the strainer was basically just a big trunk overhanging the river with most, or all, of the above-water branches stripped off, I'd probably go into it sideways and brace. Probably even get both my hands on the trunk, at the expense of losing my paddle, and get out of my canoe onto the tree trunk as quickly as possible. --riverman > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Thanks, > B. What is a strainer? Micheal On Jul 24, 11:23 pm, "Micheal Artindale" <michealartind...@eastlink.ca> wrote: > > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Micheal Now THERE is a newbie question. :-) A 'strainer' is an obstacle (usually a tree) that is laying in the current such that the water moves through it, but an object (such as a boater or boat) will get entangled, but not be washed through it. It is similar to a 'sweeper', which is a tree or other object overhanging a river in such a manner that your boat will go under it, but you will get knocked over ('swept') and fall into the water. Often trees are laying in the water in such a way that a big branch upstream is acting as a sweeper, and the body of the tree is a strainer, so you get knocked out of your boat by the branch, then washed into the strainer. Strainers, along with low-head dams, are the most dangerous and life- threatening things on rivers. They are often like icebergs, with more beneath the water than you realize. Always give downed trees and branches a WIDE berth. --riverman On Jul 24, 10:23 pm, "Micheal Artindale" <michealartind...@eastlink.ca> wrote: > > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Micheal Any place the water flows through and you can't. Hence the term "strainer". It strains you out of the water. I just completed a SWR clinic and they indicated that IF you cannot avoid the strainer then you shoud get on your belly and swim agressively towards the strainer --- when you get close enough -- lift yourself over the strainer. Here's a link discussing it: http://www.expertvillage.com/video/30115_swift-water-rescue-swimming-strainer.htm Jim S. > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Thanks, > B. |
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