Your Personal Flotation Device for Whitewater Kayaking

Video Transcript

"Your PFD, personal flotation device also called you life jacket is a important key piece of equipment. You must make sure that you have proper fit and sizing these are all very similar PFDs but you can see this is for a smaller person a young child perhaps just designed for that height and weight. This one here is designed for a larger person you can see that it is made to support bigger weight, bigger person these are all front zips. This one is my PFD designed for my size this is a style that you put on over your head so it is a little bit different then the others. It is also a rescue PFD so it has special accessories to help if you have to do a rescue when you are on the river. One thing about PFDs and let me put the one that is to big on so you can see the problems if you have a ill fitting PFD. You want to make sure when you put a PFD on that it fits you and if somebody pulls it, pulls you into a raft or a canoe that it doesn't come sliding up over your head. You can see how loose this is on me if somebody tried to pull me in I would basically the PFD would come right off so you want to make sure you have nice and snug and make sure that it fits smoothly. It is really important to have a nice fitting PFD I think I should get a better size then this one."