Safety Gear

You’ve been paddling flat water for a year, you’ve booked onto a whitewater course, and the kit list says “helmet.” You look at your cycling helmet and wonder if that’ll…

You capsized 200 metres from the shore, your phone was in a zip-lock bag inside your deck bag, and somehow water still got in. The screen is flickering, your car…

You’ve capsized. You’re upside down in a kayak, underwater, and everything your brain wants to do — flail, gasp, panic — is wrong. A wet exit is the simple skill…

You’re about to launch in January. The air temperature is 4°C, the water is barely warmer, and the first thing you notice — before your arms tire, before the wind…

You’ve loaded the car, pumped up the board, and driven 45 minutes to the coast — only to arrive at a windswept beach where the water looks like a washing…

You have just capsized your kayak in a Welsh river and watched your phone, wallet, and car keys float downstream inside a rucksack that was definitely not waterproof. Or maybe…