In my local club (You know, the club where people think safety is for sissies) the normal dress for cold water paddling is a 3 mm neoprene long john, polypro shirt, fleece sweater and a paddling jacket (not a drytop). No head protection, usually. PFD's are worn. I'm trying to convince people that clothing like that will expand the time for a rescue from 2-3 minutes to 10-15 minutes... But I'm not at all sure of that. Does anybody have data on that? Factual, numeric test results, or horrorstories about hypothermia while wearing neoprene? Lenze from Denmark suggests I enter the water myself, but since water the water around here is extremely wet, I'd like to obtain my data in another way. Niels. *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Mar 29 2004 - 04:19:29 PST
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