From: "Jack Fu" <SeaDogJack_at_cablespeed.com> > Mike, > How do you fit three people in a sleeping bag? > Jack With great difficulty! Actually two is a possibility if you have a rectangular bag, but a mummy is awkward. If two bags zip together (more common today than twenty years ago) do that. Spreading an open sleeping bag over the casualty and rescuers with thermal sleeping pads underneath will work. Wrapping the whole affair with an aluminized mylar blanket (emergency "space" blanket), tarp, tent or other windproofing is a useful addition. Like all serious first aid in the wilderness, you have to improvise. If a person is shivering, they won't need this treatment. If they are practically an iceberg, the treatment that Matt suggested is probably advised. This falls somewhere in-between. I described the worst I've been through personally - that just required "fuel", a drink and a bit of warming. The worst I've ever had to treat was a kayaker that overturned in icy water, losing his paddle and means of reentry in the process. We got to him after he had been in the water for about five minutes. He was wearing cotton sweat pants and -shirt, windbreaker & PFD (air temp just above freezing, wind chill below freezing). We did an assisted rescue to get him in the kayak and, while I kept him steady, the other rescuer towed us to an island. We rafted over the shore-bound ice and got him to shore. Between the two of us, we rescuers were able to give him a complete change of clothes - including _extra_ insulation (and this was a day paddle!). We wrapped him in a aluminized tarp and fed him hot tea. He was shaking so bad he spilled half the tea. An ice canoe was launched from shore to rescue him. Seeing an ice canoe seal land on the ice and come right to shore was something! I hope I never have to deal with anything that serious or more again! Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Apr 12 2001 - 19:40:38 PDT
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