Subj : Re: Ryshkevich videos
To   : rec.sport.rowing
From : carl
Date : Sat Jun 12 2021 05:17 pm

On 11/06/2021 16:18, Marc Messing wrote:
> Does anyone have video of the Dzmitry Ryshkevich accident.
> 
> While talking with someone about the incident I mentioned that he was
surrounded by professional rescue personnel at the time of the accident but
that -- as far as I can determine -- no official reports of the accident have
been released. WR says Austrian officials are responsible for the delay.
> 
> Is anyone aware of any videos or credible information beyond the initial news
 reports and condolences?
> 
> Marc
> 

Marc -

This was a training accident, before the regatta.  My information is 
that Dzimitry was at some distance from any rescue boat, rather than 
"surrounded".

I question the much over-used term "professional", routinely bolted onto 
"official" comments in almost every unfortunate situation to make it 
seem that whatever then happens was done with skilled planning & deep 
expertise.  Had it been that professional, wouldn't Dzimitry have survived?

That something breaks on an adaptively-rigged boat, capsizing the 
sculler and trapping him, is a poor start, suggesting inadequate safety 
& release equipment in the boat.  To then be submerged for some time &, 
I understand, to get just his head to the surface, only to slip back & 
drown, suggests that he may still have been trapped & had been held 
under for far too long.

That the bolts holding one side of the rigger/pontoon system to the hull 
were missing (I understand), with that side of the boat undamaged, while 
the lip on the other side of the boat was apparently twisted and ripped 
off, strongly suggests that complete failure of 2 bolts on the one side 
allowed the boat to roll over.  The actual failure mode may be 
undiscoverable if those bolts remain on the lake bed, but is concerning. 
  It suggests a metal fatigue failure, from repeated over-tightening of 
the missing bolts.  Over-tightening of M6 stainless bolts, because the 
wrenches allow this even though stainless bolts are far softer than 
high-tensile steel, is what we rowers like to do!

To be almost 2 years down the road, leaving rowers without information 
on which to act, may satisfy "procedure" but hardly helps to advance 
rowing safety.

Carl
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