Gaal Yahas ([info]gaal) wrote,
@ 2009-05-05 00:17:00
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in his haste, he misidentified the vessel
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1082956.html

  • A speedy recovery to Ms. Feingold.
  • It's not a kayak, it's a skiff (or more precisely, a scull).
  • Good thing we still have some civilians around, eh?

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[info]wildernesscat
2009-05-05 03:08 am UTC (link)
She's not with us any more.

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OMG
[info]veryty
2009-05-05 04:51 am UTC (link)
How terrible. How grotesque.

The country (we?) failed her, yet another of our young people who aim to achieve only to have their future trashed or torpedoed by a state with screwed-up, inhuman priorities. Where's all the vaunted Israeli science when it comes to making our environment nontoxic?

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Re: OMG
[info]gaal
2009-05-05 06:03 am UTC (link)
AFAIK most of the pollution in the Yarkon is coming from sewage and chemical plant dumping from upstream, which has been going on for very many years. Regarding the second of these two, it isn't science that is lacking so much as a persistent expectation of the public that if somebody is corrupt, they go to jail. I think the other one has to do with other problems in the Israeli society (i.e., look into which localities these are that are dumping sewage, and why).

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How very late-20th-C.- American of me!
[info]veryty
2009-05-06 05:12 am UTC (link)
Yes, my first reaction was definitely of the "If they can put a man on the moon, why can't they cure [X]" where X=any old and usually degrading disease or other blight that harms people. Yours, [info]gaal, is an insightful view, and in line with the health concept that prevention is superior to cure. And the societal fundamentals: this is the country that potty-trains its toddlers with a cheery outcome: "!ביי-ביי קקי, להתראות בים" (I wonder how that was translated for overseas readers of the syndicated "סיר הסירים" so brilliantly titled in the original?)

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[info]gaal
2009-05-05 05:59 am UTC (link)
Crap :(

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[info]wildernesscat
2009-05-05 01:39 pm UTC (link)
Wait a sec, I was too hasty with the conclusions. She did make it!!

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[info]lishablog
2009-05-05 09:41 am UTC (link)
Wow. This is so awful and frightening.

I've spent a lot of time upside down in kayaks, working on self-rescue and stuff like that, and never have I had, you know, foam coming out of my mouth.

When you are learning rowing of any sort, you learn how to get into and out of your boat in emergencies. The idea that her skiff turned over and that the water of the Yarkon is SO polluted that she didn't have time to get herself unhooked from the boat is horrendously scary.

My thoughts go out to her family. What an awful way to lose a loved one.

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[info]gaal
2009-05-05 11:08 am UTC (link)
My guess is that she was hurt by the fall, perhaps by an oar or the oarlock outrigging. Or maybe she got tangled. The water of the river is not immediately lethal from contact (I know, because I've been inside it myself).

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