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Show 1005 of the " V", probably, and get into short waves four or five feet high. " Mr. Russell got in the habit of cutting across those " V" lines and getting into the five- foot waves, which smothered his boat: it got so he was water logged in pretty near every rapid he went over. " Q. I don't believe I understand why it is not better to pick the smaller waves than the larger ones. " A. If your boat is sixteen feet long and your waves five feet high and ten feet apart, your boat is up on one wave when you hit the other wave, so being up on his wave will naturally make you get under the next wave; that is what smothers you. " If you have got waves eight feet high and sixteen feet apart, your boat will ride them all without taking any water. " Those waves twenty feet high, in No. 4, I never took a quart of water. " Russell's boat was logged because he was afraid of the big waves. I don't mean to say he didn't have as much nerve as I did; just poor judgment, maybe, something like that. We lost five thousand feet of picture film, anyway, by him doing that." R. 2378. The purpose of this trip was for taking motion pictures. There were twenty thousand feet of film taken along but five thousand feet were lost in twenty miles of Cataract Canyon. " You want us to go on down? " BY MR. BLACKMAR: " Q. Yes. " A. We continued on down some twenty miles, and one day at noon he was water logged, good while getting his boat out of the current; when he did, his boat was absolutely full of water, so |
