>>2710582Have you actually learned how to kyack?
There are core safety skills you should even be allowed to get into a kyack without having.
>strong swimming skillsThe water you're in might only be 10m abreast and 2m deep, but fast flowing water, your clothes and snags make it a very high risk environment. Riskier than open water.
>turtle drillsYou have to know how to recover from a turtle if your in/out/stuck inside a kyack. If you fail you could die, if you're scared to do it in a swimming pool you're nowhere near ready. You can drown in a swimming pool, kyacking in a swimming pool, there is no "safe" kyacking.
The problem is basically that even if you're with other people, it's very hard/ dangerous to extract a kyack pilot who's turtled. You might have 10 kyacks and 9 will be powerless if the tenth turtles.
>fast water recoveryYou need to know how to cross fast water, recover gear, extract a kyack, land navigate around fast water, how to get an injured person out of fast water.
I know people will think you can just go for a paddle and they I'm being pedantic, I'm not. Cunts die every year, statistically quiet a lot die compared to say... swimmers (if you exclude shallow water drowning)
