revcp, you know my comments to your canoe trip story and the two kids in the water? I realized soon after that last year I had heard a radio piece on CBC radio where two adults spoke of how they were still affected by a school trip at least 20 years ago, where some schoolmates were drowned. I forget the actual details of what happened, but this must have been in the back of my mind when I read your account, as these adults were relaying how much of an impact it had on their lives (specifically guilt), and that was what I remembered clearly from the piece and why your account was rather chilling.
anyway, thought I'd mention it before I forgot.
cheers
Stories like that haunt me. I've seen so many groups that frightened me because they didn't know what they were doing. Things can go wrong so quickly. The group in my story simply had no business being on the water when it was so windy. They were so inexperienced that they didn't know what they couldn't do. That sounds odd, but in my.mind that's even more important than knowing what you can do. I was so shocked when the adult leaders just didn't realize that they almost lost one of their kids. I'm thankful we were there.