Painful reading. It looks like this happened to an experienced kiter in perfect mellow conditions with all possible safety systems in place (except for an impact vest); right up to there being beach kiteboys with radios alerting two rescue boats already on the water who acted immediately, yet had great trouble getting the kite under control even in the moderate wind. If this happened at Nitinat or really anywhere else around here, it would be a much, much longer time before anyone could help.

Perhaps they will find it was a preexisting medical condition caused the death prior to the kite loops.

I myself hit the water about 3 weeks ago in high wind small kite so hard it almost knocked me out. Having a impact vest would have made it smoother and also would add floatation in case i had broken something and could not swim.
Nit Nat needs some sort of eyes there and think having myself and other rescue craft who know how to deal with situations that can be dangerous
to others and themselves is a bonus to the lake and should continue.
Last year there were quite a few cases where Marie from evolution kiteboarding and Myself from Strongkiteboarding where i have actually
ran my see doo up on the beach to get under control kites that were tangled
and looping towards crowds of by standerds on the beach that never knew how to grab a kite.
I believe that is why everyone who is around the sport should take a basic lesson and this summer i would like to hold a clinic once a week where people can drop in for FREE and learn how to handle and control a kite.
so when ordeals like that happen again there are more than a few sets of eyes watching out for each other. Like any extreem sports like windsurfing/Kitesurfing Things happen""
Have a good one www.strongkiteboarding.com