While cars and marathons and getting into your bathtub all have their dangers, they never pushed us to learn anything. I guess our underlying assumption was that help was always close. It's when we started talking about long trips on the water. In fact, right now would be a good example as I imagine we're at least 4 hours from any hospital or medical attention as we're off the coast of Washington. Coast Guard could get to us but that would take a while. So that was our impetus to learn. I'm just glad we didn't wait until there was a problem or tragedy before realizing we needed to. In fact at the moment there are 8 of us on board and 7 of us have had training.