Is water unsafe for swimming, unsafe for kiting?

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11945442

Swimming arguable is more immersive and involves more contact with water. So have a theory that kiting is less risky. Any other thoughts?

Jump start off the beach and then don't stack it the whole session and you will be fine!!

Realistically I think that whilst when your swimming you spend more time immersed in the water, when you are kiting you have a much higher chance of ingesting water or having water forced into your nose and ears ( and an enema isn't impossible) which is when problems are most likely to occur

Yeah, I recon it would depend on how often you crash. If you crash constantly then more likely. If not less likely. I would go for a "dry" session at those beaches. As little crashing as possible.

Next question. How far out to sea does the unsafe region extend? if its just at swimming distances but safe a few hundred meters out that might be also less likely to affect you.

It's why foiling was invented

One spray of water is one bacteria on you.... so it's no safer than swimming.

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Alysum said..
One spray of water is one bacteria on you.... so it's no safer than swimming.

I think its more about ingestion of that water into one of many of your orifices.

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cauncy said..
It's why foiling was invented

The irony is that you have to get to chest height before you even start so you can be wetter than beach starting on a TT.
Also while learning you crash a lot more, so again wetter than TT. Plus there's way more face planting and water getting injected into your facial orifices.....

But then again foiling gets you out past the poo invested shore break in into cleaner water.

ive heard it was through nz crew rooting sheep up the chuff, then taking a leek in the streams thus passing bacteria into the waterways,
TRUE OR FAIR DINKUM

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cauncy said..
ive heard it was through nz crew rooting sheep up the chuff, then taking a leek in the streams thus passing bacteria into the waterways,
TRUE OR FAIR DINKUM

Nah this is what happens to the sheep we shag

there's a few issues from farming areas on the west coast too.
best not to put your head underwater

Tin hat foil time...



and further ...

prezi.com/hr55kgevne_o/history-of-government-scare-tactics/
www.smh.com.au/opinion/fear--the-abbott-governments-weapon-of-choice-20150301-13rsb2.html

I f**** d up a kiteloop at Shoal Bay a couple months back and despite getting an absolute pasting, my first thought was "Don't swallow the water!"

Made the slam less painful, having something else to focus on