i was wakeboarding last week with my impact vest and fell pretty hard and broke two ribs and tore and bruised my lungs. i wasn't able to swim because of the impact and began to drowned because my vest isn't coast guard approved. i need some help either finding a vest with great impact resistance or a coast guard approved impact vest.

A: sounds like the impact didnt do its job on top of you about drowning! check out these. not as slim but will do the job keeping you afloat.


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MANILA, Philippines—For the people of Sta. Monica in Novaliches, this Quezon City judge on a Jet Ski who plucked dozens of residents from swirling flood waters on Saturday is “Superman.”

“I was so shocked by the situation when I heard that around 150 houses were already flooded,” said Judge Ralph Lee of Regional Trial Court Branch 83.

“I heard that so many families were already stranded on their rooftops because water from the Tullahan River was already overflowing,” Lee, 49, told the Inquirer.

Lee drove from his Fairview home for the stricken community 30 minutes away with his personal water craft, life vests and two rubber boats he used on weekend wakeboarding sorties and mobilized a rescue effort that saved 100 lives.

There were other super heroes, like Muelmar Magallanes, a powerful swimmer who braved rampaging floods to save more than 30 people, but ended up sacrificing his life in a last trip to rescue a baby girl who was being swept away on a styrofoam box.

A ample wake boarder can hit waves with prosperity, propel behind a zoom motor yacht that goes as wanton as some cars and bag jumps safely. But very likely the most effective fetish that they should do is have a wakeboard vest to defend them and be a skilled benchmark for people who are fans of the frolic and require to ridicule the professionals. All too often, people find creditable that they are perceived as pathetic or girly for wearing a wakeboard vest while they a motor cycle with their friends.

The experience of the implication is that the advantages of wearing a wakeboard vest overcome the disadvantages. A wakeboard vest can watch over you against serious wound or even cessation. Also, if you should take a dirty blow the gaff and you hit the bear scrutiny impenetrable enough to get a concussion a wakeboard vest will keep you afloat and stuff up you from drowning. Some excuses that people will give are that the wakeboard vests look asinine and dont fit well. Steadfast, if you only wakeboard once a year at the burg lake, then they vest that they will produce you does look quiet because it is meant to be one greatness fits all and has been drawn tired by countless people before you. If you go out and buy your own wakeboard vest, then you can get one in a color that you favour and custom-made in your measure.

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