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Tag: death

Death on snowmobile: part 2

By Michael Coyle Posted on 14/03/2010 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with death, injury, opinion, safety, SAR, snow, snowmobile
Death on snowmobile: part 2

I’d like to talk about one or two things I’ve noticed that can help shed light on why 200 people would go out into such obviously dangerous conditions, and expose themselves to what would seem to be obvious risk. These …

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Death on snowmobile

By Michael Coyle Posted on 13/03/2010 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with death, injury, opinion, safety, SAR, snow, snowmobile
Death on snowmobile

Today over 200 people were on scene at an “unorganized event” known as the “Big Iron Shootout” near Revelstoke, there was an avalanche and several people were killed, many were injured and there are possibly some missing. In the past …

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Death by Snowshoe

By Michael Coyle Posted on 07/12/2009 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with accident, death, safety, snow, snowshoe

I’m working on an article on the mechanisms by which snowshoers near Vancouver tend to get in trouble (injury and death). The summary is this: snowshoers tend to have slip-and-fall injuries on hard snow during periods of sunny weather either …

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