I know that dead stop feeling well. Was paddling at night headed to a spot near downtown Miami as I went under a low bridge and looked up at all the car traffic and didn't notice that current took me wide and hit a bridge piling head on. If I hadn't stopped paddling to look up I would have flown out.

This happened to me about a month ago on fork. I was on one of the coves by the 154 public ramp. I ran over a stump and part of it went right into the scupper hole. It was the first time it had eveer happened to me, so initially I sat there wondering what the h*** had happened. I tried rocking for a bit, nice and easy at first, to no avail. I thought of using my anchor to pull myself off, but I had disengaged from it to scout around. I was about to get in the water and figured, 'well if I'm going to get wet anyway, may as well rock as hard as I can (sideways)'. I managed to get off without incident. I actually had felt pretty stupid and embarrassed that this had happened until I read this post. Thanks guys for sharing.