Guided Sea Kayaking

“Out on open water, you can’t just pull over for a chat.”

Sarah runs guided sea kayaking tours along the Pembrokeshire coast. With groups of up to eight paddlers — often a mix of experienced and novice — keeping everyone informed had always been one of her biggest challenges. Tide changes, regrouping points, incoming weather, route adjustments: all of it needed to be communicated to people spread across an unpredictable stretch of open water. Shouting across waves is unreliable at best, and dangerous at worst. Paddlers at the back of the group often missed critical information entirely.

Her assistant guide would sometimes drop back to relay instructions, but that split the group’s supervision and created its own risks. On busier crossings, the logistics of keeping eight people informed, safe, and moving in the right direction felt like a constant juggling act.

After switching to DigamE, Sarah can brief the whole group on the water without requiring everyone to raft up. She can check in on quieter paddlers, alert the group to a course change, and stay in constant contact with her assistant guide at the back of the pack — all without breaking stroke. When a paddler is struggling or a weather window starts to close, the response time is immediate rather than delayed by the difficulty of crossing open water to reach someone.

“The sea doesn’t give you many chances to communicate safely. DigamE gives me back that control. I can guide the whole group in real time, and they can tell me if something’s wrong before it becomes a problem. For guided tours, it’s become as essential as a buoyancy aid.”

Sarah now includes DigamE as standard kit on all her guided tours and has recommended it to other instructors along the coast. Several have since adopted it for their own groups.