07-24-2018, 03:18 AM
Great story and caring post and TubeDude's picture shows the hazards well to help prevent damage and possible injury. Thanks!
Years ago I posted on hazards of treble hook lures stuck on the submerged steel cables of a "fishing pier" that is popular for swimming. I can imagine that it would be quite bad to try to figure out how to get released while held underwater from being snagged by one.
http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gfo...le;#778303
I wonder why there aren't some sort of warning things there. Flags on fiberglass rods for the walls at least?
It would make sense, but I think I know the answer.
I remember when I skied two full seasons in Vail there were two resorts that handled hazards in opposite ways which I thought was odd.
One would put padding on hazards and remove insidious hidden hazards like a root that loops up and can capture a boot at high speed hiding under light snow. The other would not remove any hazards.
The reasons surprised me. They were all about being sued by people who injure themselves on the hazards. The one that padded the most egregious hazards would get sued because someone runs into something out of the way and it wasn't padded and they claim it should have been padded, too. Once you start with the padding, you can't pad everything. Once you remove one hazard or a few of the worst, someone will find a lesser hazard and get hurt and sue because they claim it should have been removed, too. You can't remove every rock and tree because that would destroy the beauty and no one would ski there.
The other ski resort did nothing to prevent injury. They didn't remove any hazards and didn't pad anything. They even had an avalanche structure that splits an avalanche to protect a building and the leading edge of it was a sharp blade that would split anything that runs into it. The resort that did nothing to mitigate hazards actually got sued the least because it's the skier's responsibility to look out for hazards.
It seems to me that if it weren't for our society being so litigious with crazy jury awards, the worst of hazards could be marked or removed.
I'm guessing that might be the reason nothing is done regarding underwater stumps and walls.
Life and hobbies are like that. There are hazards.
Now that I'm enjoying my new off-roading hobby, I'm noticing you don't see what's over the next rise until you're there. What could go wrong?
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Years ago I posted on hazards of treble hook lures stuck on the submerged steel cables of a "fishing pier" that is popular for swimming. I can imagine that it would be quite bad to try to figure out how to get released while held underwater from being snagged by one.
http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gfo...le;#778303
I wonder why there aren't some sort of warning things there. Flags on fiberglass rods for the walls at least?
It would make sense, but I think I know the answer.
I remember when I skied two full seasons in Vail there were two resorts that handled hazards in opposite ways which I thought was odd.
One would put padding on hazards and remove insidious hidden hazards like a root that loops up and can capture a boot at high speed hiding under light snow. The other would not remove any hazards.
The reasons surprised me. They were all about being sued by people who injure themselves on the hazards. The one that padded the most egregious hazards would get sued because someone runs into something out of the way and it wasn't padded and they claim it should have been padded, too. Once you start with the padding, you can't pad everything. Once you remove one hazard or a few of the worst, someone will find a lesser hazard and get hurt and sue because they claim it should have been removed, too. You can't remove every rock and tree because that would destroy the beauty and no one would ski there.
The other ski resort did nothing to prevent injury. They didn't remove any hazards and didn't pad anything. They even had an avalanche structure that splits an avalanche to protect a building and the leading edge of it was a sharp blade that would split anything that runs into it. The resort that did nothing to mitigate hazards actually got sued the least because it's the skier's responsibility to look out for hazards.
It seems to me that if it weren't for our society being so litigious with crazy jury awards, the worst of hazards could be marked or removed.
I'm guessing that might be the reason nothing is done regarding underwater stumps and walls.
Life and hobbies are like that. There are hazards.
Now that I'm enjoying my new off-roading hobby, I'm noticing you don't see what's over the next rise until you're there. What could go wrong?
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