Reddit reviews Sea Kayaker's Deep Trouble: True Stories and Their Lessons from Sea Kayaker Magazine

Having done some of my kayaking instruction, particularly self-rescue training up in those waters, I don't know if I'd want to paddle there without some sort of immersion gear. At least a farmer john. Matt Broze's book is full of strong people that died in those waters due to hypothermia.

I thought that was what would happen when that post was read; I think that was the effect I was aiming for. I suspect there are a lot of people who think that way.

I was doing some technical SCUBA diving, diving requiring decompression stops, and the idea of the normalization of deviance pops up many times when there are fatalities and a subsequent analysis of what has gone wrong occurs.

Avoiding safety measures due to the low probability of an event does not mitigate the dangers should an event happen.

This video is one of the better ones I have seen on this topic:

Situational Awareness: A Metacognitive Approach to Personal & Team Safety

https://youtu.be/-pw7YY7VOlc

I read this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Kayakers-Deep-Trouble-Magazine/dp/0070084998

And it seems many scenarios there are also made worse by the the normalization of deviance.

Deep Trouble by Matt Broze and George Gronseth
I learned so much from reading this book! It's more a collection of cautionary tales than an adventure book - but it could potentially save your life.

Glad to hear you made it in one piece. I have been reading this book every so often which recounts the stories of some lucky and not so lucky kayakers put in choppy conditions. It's the decisions taken on land that save you at sea. https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Kayakers-Deep-Trouble-Magazine/dp/0070084998