. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. need medical attention, mostly because of scrapes or braises, Weaver says. An occasional broken arm is the most severe injury, usually suffered by an advanced student experimenting with a difficult maneuver. Most students are first-timers, about 85 percent, according to Weaver. He estimates that the school has stopped more than 200,000 different people into gliders during the past 23 years. One reason the school has been able to teach so many people is that the only real limitation is weight: a student mus
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. need medical attention, mostly because of scrapes or braises, Weaver says. An occasional broken arm is the most severe injury, usually suffered by an advanced student experimenting with a difficult maneuver. Most students are first-timers, about 85 percent, according to Weaver. He estimates that the school has stopped more than 200,000 different people into gliders during the past 23 years. One reason the school has been able to teach so many people is that the only real limitation is weight: a student must weigh at least 85 pounds to muster enough force to shift the glider's wings and no more than 225 pounds. Age and physical condition are not hmiting factors. At this school, the youngest student so far was 7, the oldest 92. And an instructor here once helped a visually and hearing-impaired man learn to fly. The average student? It's not a college kid or a 25-year-old sports addict, as I had assumed. It's me. About 60 percent of the students, Weaver says, are 30-something vacationers. I begin to wonder if taking a hang gliding lesson is a popular way of grabbing gusto during a mid-life crisis — but before the personal implications of that thought can sink in, my lesson starts. Continued COASTWATCH 3. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original UNC Sea Grant College Program. [Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program]
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