Thursday, May 28, 2015

Flipping Boats

We had just canoed to a beach on the Chesapeake. Lunch was over, and someone told us we were going to flip the canoes over and rescue the boat and the people. Aden and I went out and started tipping back and fourth. Tipping, tipping, flipping! The water was very cold, and my body took a while to adjust.The boat was upside down, in the water and we were floating on top of the cold bay water. I went under the flipped boat with Aden and got the paddles out. The man running this drill got close to our boat, and showed us how to get the water out of the boat, and safe for the people in the water.

HE grabbed the tip of the boat, and puled it over his dry canoe. The water dripped out of the canoe, or whatever was still in it. He yells that he's going to flip the boat the correct way on his canoe. The boat made a loud sound when he flipped it back to normal. We pulled ourselves back into the canoe, and now it was our turn to rescue someone who needed Help    

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