Newsgroup: it.sport.windsurf
Titolo: [OT-Kite-lutto]

Un'altro dei nostri  se ne va.
Occhio ragazzi !!........ la prossima uscita e' per Ronald
Yesterday around 13:00 a tragic accident took place at Slufter beach here in
the Netherlands.
Ronald Verspoor, a 41 year old kitesurfer lost his life. Ronald lost control
over his kite for unknown reasons and was thrown into wooden wave-breakers
on the beach downwind. Trauma helicopter was called in, but without results.
Ronald died at the spot of his injuries. The wooden poles mark the border of
the bird-sanctuary that is right next to the spot.
The tragic accident is the subject of many conversation in the Dutch
kitesurf scene. The site 
www.kitehigh.nl
 offers pictures of Ronald, there is
an (Dutch) eye-whitness report and a register of remembrance. In several
forums hundreds of people reacted on the bad news.
"Everyone is very shocked by this accident", says Hans Konermann,
ex-frontman of the Dutch Kitesurf Federation. Konermann acknowledges that
the victim is Ronald Verspoor, a IKO certified kitesurfinstructor. "Eye
whitnesses told me that the accident happened while Ronald was still ashore.
He must have made an error while picking up his board. All of a sudden his
kite became unstable, after which the pull of the kite threw him into the
wooden poles."
Ronald Verspoor was a very experienced kitesurfer. Being IKO instructor he
complied to all demands that the Royal Dutch Watersport Federation (KNWV)
demands. Since 2000 a system for certification exists for kitesurfschools.
Schools that want to apply for certification are audited pretty stringently
according to the KNWV.
Ronald wasn't teaching yesterday. "This accident is tragic, but could have
happened to anyone who practises kitesurfing", so says Konermann. "Those
wooden poles took his life. If these weren't there he would most probably
not even have been wounded."
In the Netherlands approximately 8500 kitesurfers are active. According to
Konermann this is the second fatal accident in the sport worldwide for as
far as is known. Konermann: "Relatively small amounts of accidents happen in
the sport. You could fall off your bicycle and die too."
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la tipologia dell'incidente č sempre la stessa. personalmente ho visto due
situazioni analoghe che fortunatamente si sono concluse senza decesso. non č
un caso che tutti e due i kiters che conosco abbiano rischiato di morire
alla stessa maniera, praticamente sulla spiaggia.
non voglio demonizzare questo sport nč ricordare che da quando il windsurf
esiste (piů di venti anni) cose del genere non si erano mai viste.
perň so solo che in acqua negli ultimi 17 giorni che sono stato in full
immersion ho visto quotidianamente kiters con problemi "abbastanza
importanti":
un incidente quasi mortale;
un'ala persa al largo;
diverse tavole perse al largo...
un kiters recuperato in "affanno " con la vela in acqua;
etc...
bah. riflettiamo per ora e buon viento a tutti (kiters compresi).

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 rafficato ?  Vento più forte ?
Per quanto riguarda l'Italia, l'autunno e' un periodo di vento piuttosto
forte e rafficato, quindi possono verificarsi piu' incidenti.