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Fitting Your WRSI Helmet

Installing the O-Brace on the WRSI Helmet

The motivation for this project originated from the results of a fatal kayaking accident to Lucas Brandon Turner, who died on the North Fork of the Payette River in Idaho on July 12, 1998, due to the failure of a commercially available helmet to protect his head from blunt trauma. His father, Gil Turner, established the Institute of Whitewater Research & Safety as a nonprofit foundation dedicated to making whitewater recreation a safer sport. As such, the resulting helmet represents the culmination of the 4 year Whitewater Head Impact Protection Project (WWHIP) cosponsored by the Institute and Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD.