I would add only one comment to Illusion's remarks about paddling with a Personal Locator Beacon: all such sea kayakers should plan their trips, and make their paddling decisions, as if their beacons were broken. As Doctor Johnson remarked many years ago, nothing so wonderfully concentrates a man's mind as the prospect of being hanged in the morning. Similarly, edge-seeking kayakers should maintain a healthy skepticism about the reliability of the PLB unit, and, more importantly, of its unintended enabling of bad decisions on the water.