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we're on the mighty Hudson River right now about 50 Mi south of us New York City it's a beautiful River you know
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I've been doing this for 15 years and I remember coming out here and the river being dirty and a lot of people having
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you know people today oh you kayak on the Hudson River and it's uh you know it's a commercial Waterway it's it's
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surrounded by a lot of population on its Shores but uh it's clean and it's safe and um it's a it's a great place to
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kayak it really is what do you know about the weather out here on the Hudson on April 19th of this year of 2015 so I
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know that after the incident I saw that the water temperature was 46° I saw that
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there was a pretty strong wind out of the South about 14 to 17 miles an hour so that would have created some some
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pretty good waves out here what size waves uh they could be anywhere from 2 to 4 feet probably with that wind and
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the tide going out easily 2 feet the wind is blowing me the currents are taking me and these waves these are
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nothing these are just inches high right not two to four feet no not at all these
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this is typical what we experience on our tours um and again that's why it's so dangerous um when the wind gets stronger
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and the waves get bigger perhaps that day when they went over the river was navigable but on the way back it was
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worse correct correct yeah the the Hudson's notorious for that changing conditions it changes like that yes and
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you can get in danger very quickly here absolutely