Toby....so far this year we've got 2 fatalities in Canada and 1 in Germany? Any more that we know about? Holland had also a fatality recently, a 26 year old beginner. Rolled his lines out upwind and launches his kite in full window. Saw it on kitehigh.nl and hanglos.nl http://www.hvzeeland.nl/Nieuw...

VEURNE (Belgium) fri 19/11/2010 - In a Belgian hospital (close to the French border) a French kitesurfer deceased who last week was picked unconscious from the sea by the Seaking rescue helicopter. The French kitesurfer drifted off from French waters (Bray-Dunes) to the Belgian shore. The kite surfe...