Re the "Florida" fishermen turned swimmers: okay, Georgia, not Florida. Thirty miles offshore, in the water for 48 hours. No details on temperatures. Video at http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/boaters-survive-clinging-cooler-10698149 By the way, this is in no way a refutation of Joe's posting. I've had the same experience -- last weekend doing a safety boating stint, actually, out of the boat most of the time. Got chilled even with a hybrid farmer john on. Everything Joe and Dr. Sutherland and others say is true. But once in a while, people get awfully lucky! 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 - 10:08:19 PDT
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