Canoeists' death prompt safety pleas
People engaged in high-risk adventure sports should undertake basic training in rescue and survival techniques, an investigation into the deaths of two canoeists warned today.
Officials from the Marine Casualty Investigation Board found a large volume of water from a storm had turned the normally placid River Barrow into a fast flowing torrent when Martin Roche and Neil Byrne died on October 30, 2004.
