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Following the deaths of 12 people in whitewater
rafting accidents in B.C. this summer CP Vancouver

STEVE

SARDIS (CP) — The 20 whitewater rafters who
boarded the yellow former school bus for the 15-minute
ride to the river feli into two groups.

A half-dozen or so experienced rafters staked out the
back of the bus and had a party, singing along to rock
music blaring from the bus’s sound system.

The others looked out the window introspectively,
catching glimpses of the Chilliwack River through the
trees, They were the novices.

Clearly, they didn't know what to expect and it
would have been. surprising if thoughts of British
Columbia's 12 whitewater rafting fatalities this summer
hadn't crept into their minds.

If they were afraid, they didn’t let on. Each had paid
$49 for a y trip down the Chilliwack, about 110
kilometres east of Vancouver. They would journey down
the province's longest continuous rapids, with a vertical
drop of 83.5 metres every 1.6 kilometres, the sharpest of
any whitewater river in B.C.

RAFT Inc., the largest operator on the Chilliwack,
has identified 50 separate rapids on the narrow, winding
river aes given. pets :nemee such an Terminator and
Crocodile: Ces)

The first-timers milling around RAFT's base camp
only hinted at their concern. A young woman who'd come
with three friends joked about which of them would come
through alive. Her friends didn't think it was funny. Two
brothers, ri asked about
safety precautions. One mentioned the most recent
deaths on the Chilko River.

EXCEEDS STANDARDS

RAFT's owner, Vladimir Kulich, said later in an
interview his operation exceeds current government
standards. Even the revised regulations, introduced after
the spate of fatalities, included safety measures RAFT
has used for the last six years — such as mandatory
helmets and heat-conserving wet suits and higher
standards for raft guides.

Kulich said the Chilliwack is a class four river — class

The rafters, dressed in clammy wetsuits and
wile and carrying homemake paddies, stepped off
the bus and filed down to a river backwater where four
rafts are tied up.

The safety briefing was terse. Guide Kevin Johnson
stressed adjusting the bulky lifejacket for a snug fit so it
would not be pulled off in an emergency. The need would
become apparent later.

Next, a drill on how to retrieve someone who'd fallen
overboard and, if they're out of reach, how they could
float downriver safely. A quick run through the paddling
commands and the group was on the water.

Kulich said only the basic safety information was
really important for the 50 per cent of his customers who
are first-time rafters.

FORGET EVERYTHING

“Once you hit that first whitewater you forget
everything you've been told,” he said.

The rafts, none longer than four metres and carrying
no more than six people, started downriver. The last
raft acted as a sweep boat, watching for what the guides
call “swimmers” or any other trouble.

Johnson took a three-metre raft with Steve and
Michelle, father and daughter visiting from nearby
Washington state, Mary, an experienced rafter and river
restue technician, and a re "

Unlike bigger rafts with a single oarsman or even
with outboard motors, paddlers in a small raft control its
direction and its attitude when it hits the rapids. Guides
such as Johnson sneer at bigger rafts, saying customers
are little more than sightseers.

“The reason we use paddies is because we want
people to participate.” said Kulich.

After a few minutes sorting out Johnson's
commands, the group began paddling something like a
team. Balanced on the raft’s outer tubing, at first they
were caught by surprise when the boat hit rapids. But
soon they learned to watch the river and anticipate the
shocks.

HAVING FUN
Although it was Johnson's first summer as a guide,
he'd run the river perhaps 100 times this summer. He
seemed genuinely to be Pegi! fun, yet his voice, crisply
.” or “left paddle”

one being flat water, class six
RAFT's guides make a minimum of 30 trips down the
river before being allowed to take customers. Govern-
ment standards require only seven trips.

never lost its air of ciasrol Small wonder, said Kulich,
noting the Winnipeg native came from a family of
commercial pilots.

Kath atonal eg erent ben SAVINGS

shelves throughout the province this fall, but even before it
hits the sta: it has been condemned as sexist.

The calendar wil display the mostly hairy-chested,
mostly muscle-bound firemen in “seductive but tasteful
poses,” and it is hoped it will raise $250,000 for the
Firefighters Burn Fund, which helps equip burn wards at
city hospitals.

“It's not really that risque or anything, it’s done in good
taste and it should be well received,” said Allan Gaye, the
Winnipeg firefighter who, although not in the calender,
organized. the project.

He copied the plan from Saskatchewan, Alberta and the
United States, where similar fund-raising projects have
been staged successfully.

In Manitoba, however, Bruce Wood, spokesman for the
Men's Action Collective Against Sexism, insists the calender
is doing to men what men ‘have been doing to women for
decades — viewing them only as sex symbols.

“As a man, I don't like this trend of objectifying men as
well as women, and I can’t imagine the relative merit in
in front of fire hydrants
in suggestive poses, for people to look at,” Wood said in an
interview.

“This presents them in a very caricaturized fashion,
Rambo of the fire department.”

The calendars are to be sold for $10 each with the
money raised given to children’ 's burn units at two Winnipeg
hospitals and a burn ward at another.

The search for the 12 firemen to grace the calendar's
pages began earlier this year when 24 applicants were

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local nightclub, to the joy of the largely female audience.

The three-woman, two-man judging team, drawn from
the ranks of Winnipeg's various media outlets, picked nine
men based on how well they photographed and their appeal
to the nightclub’s crowd, Gaye said.

Eventually, 10 firefighters from the city and two from
rural Manitoba made the calendar.

“There is one bodybuilder among the 12, but there is a
whole range of guys in there, just average guys.”

Many of these average guys confess they were a little
apprehensive at the thought of disrobing for the calendar,
but Mr. September, firefighter Al Dunn, 26, says most of
them did it only because it was for such a good cause.

“Td never done anything like that before so I was a bit
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