My brother was on a kayaking trip yesterday with a group of young real estate brokers. He was in a kayak on the East River under the Brooklyn Bridge. He and an acquaintance of his were riding in the Kayak together. As they passed by the waterfalls art exhibit their boat capsized. It's been all over the papers. My brother was interviewed on the channel 11 news last night. It was a really scary experience for him. He easily could have drowned. Luckily he is a very strong swimmer. He is fine. Two different newspapers carried the story. One was The Daily News, and the other was The New York Times. The Daily News reporter actually spoke with my brother and interviewed him, but the reporter who wrote the article for The New York Times never actually spoke with my brother and a lot of the information written in the article was incorrect. My brother did not have a camera with him and neither he nor the other man who was in the boat with him were taking pictures or horsing around. It is clear that the writer from The New York Times was writing what the tour guide told him and did not take the time to speak to anyone else. It seems to me that this tour guide was concerned mainly with ridding himself of any blame for the accident and the writer did not care enough to check his facts. I spoke with a friend of mine who is an experienced kayaker and she told me that the currents under the east river are extremely dangerous and anyone who knows anything about kayaking would never take beginner kayakers there. Even if the guide gave them instructions about how to get out of a kayak he should not have expected beginners to be able to perform this move. It seems to me that the writer and the tour guide both have a lot of explaining and apologizing to do.