I'm looking to repeat a presentation that I ran for local sea paddlers on Cold Shock, Swim Failure and Hypothermia, as a way of educating them on the real risks they face when out of the boat. My objective is to highlight that, in our water temps, hypothermia was not likely to be the almost immeadite situation that most people think of when they consider the problems they could face. Hypothermia, or "Mountain Exposure", IS a big problem for those in trouble on land, due to our exposed conditions and sudden weather changes, and this has no doubt contributed to paddlers thinking about that. My problem is, I have lost my original presentation and there were three examples that I had used that I can no longer find. One was a situation where two canoes were being paddled on a (probably North American) lake when one capsized and by the time the other one turned around to help the paddler had died, caused by cold shock. One was a story of several US Marines (I think) who drowned on a river following a boating accident, possibly during the Second World War, swim failure. I can't remember what I used as the hypothermia example, so I'm open to suggestions. I'm hoping that the combined knowledge of Paddlewise could find these, or other, examples to help. They will be used as brief case studies to catch attention. Cheers JKA John Kirk-Anderson Banks Peninsula New Zealand *************************************************************************** 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 Jan 28 2011 - 00:34:31 PST
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