Nick Schade wrote: > Cue the yearly viewing of Cold Water Bootcamp. http://vimeo.com/4534662 > This shows the effect of cold water. Most people do not drown due to > hypothermia, but instead they can no longer swim due to the cold water > either through shock or muscle failure. Dry suits are good, but life > jackets are the first line of defense. Even if you can no longer swim, > with a life jacket you will at least still float. We recently sat through the entire CWBC video. Seeing those husky, strong guys (and a couple women) struggle and flail to make a very short swim in 45F water, and then on going ashore, stagger and fall as they tried to walk, did it for everyone in the boating ed class. It will really make a believer of you. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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 22 2010 - 16:25:46 PDT
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