A kogi boy in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
The WRSI helmet is one of the safest and most economical helmets available to kayakers and other athletes today. The WRSI helmet can be credited to the living spirit of one person “Lucas Brandon Turner” who received a fatal injury while paddling on the North Fork of the Payette River in Idaho. After Lucas’s death his family committed themselves to developing a better helmet and to hopefully prevent more “needless death.” The Whitewater Rescure & Safety Institute was created and with the help of Johns Hopkins University, the WRSI watersports helmet was created. The WRSI helmet is intentionally economically and hence available to a world wide market. The WRSI helmet also features two additional accessories that creek boaters and river runner alike may consider, a detachable face mask and detachable ear protection. The detachable face mask and ear protection can be left permanently installed or quickly detached and stored away just for those big drops. Your head is definitely worth protecting with a WRSI helmet.
- Mark Hentze
