-- And it's still a 29 degree temperature differential so you're certainly losing heat to your surrondings. When I lived in Florida I did a lot of scuba diving in the N. Fla springs, which typically ran over 70 degree temps. Without a wet suit (bare body), 20 minutes was about my maximum before I began to shiver. Wet suits helped a lot. Point is, as you all know from looking at the charts, all higher temps do is stretch the time until you gecome hypothermic. Instead, consider it a given to be planned for... Joe P. ___________ And then there are the strange and unexplainable exceptions --- Just on the TV noon news -- three fishermen capsized somewhere off northern Florida, lost their boat and life vests, and held on to a cooler for three days before being rescued this morning? Shorts and tee shirts, of course. They were able to walk off the rescue boat -- with a little help -- and had sores and jellyfish stings. And a lot of luck. One said that he wouldn't have made it another day. Some of those details may be questionable -- so let's hold for more complete reports. (For what it's worth, they all looked liked they had body mass indeces favorable to prolonged submersion.) Didn't see anything on this on the Internet news yet. Jack Martin *************************************************************************** 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 May 20 2010 - 09:37:35 PDT
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