Hi, I do agree with you about the short term survival. My personal opinion is that the first 10 minutes count most. And the first 10 seconds. The club is not answering my e-mails... so maybe we will never know about thire kayaks! It is possible that the funeral is during this weekend, so I will try again. Cheers, Ari -who is waking up tomorrow at 6 a.m. to make the first trip of the season. Waters are from +1 to +2 Centigrades, night temps will be about 0 C on Sunday night. On 30. maalis 2007, at 19:22, Michael Daly wrote: > I read about it years ago and fitness likely is a better predictor of > short term survival ability than long term (as Ari suggests). Once > any person is in the water long enough (where long is very few > minutes) the outer extremities are shut down and then insulation is > important. > > However, as Prof. Popsicle (Giesbrecht) and others have pointed out, > the ability to control yourself and deal with the situation in the > first seconds to minute is critical to long-term survival. Again, as > Ari pointed out, it likely will make a difference for a paddler in the > period when they are attempting to re-enter the kayak. *************************************************************************** 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 Mar 30 2007 - 09:57:38 PDT
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