Recently someone linked an article about a tragedy associated with warm air and cold water; here's a link to the follow-up article: http://www.newsobserver.com/friday/news/triangle/Story/421089p-416503c.html The article describes the pond: "The water was deep, dark and cold"; An officer noted, "that there were no life jackets on the small boat or anywhere on the property around the pond"; also noted, "...the 58-degree water may have combined with Francisco's fatigue and caused the boy to cramp, panic or become hypothermic within seconds." The article goes on to briefly cover: cold shock, hypothermia, rescue, drowning, an alternative strategy to swimming to shore, etc. and even throws in a little statistical analysis... Craig *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Apr 13 2001 - 10:49:55 PDT
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