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Re: Other: Cold Water Deaths
By:Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K
Date: 7/13/2011, 11:50 am
In Response To: Re: Other: Cold Water Deaths (Sean Dawe)

: It is truly worth your while to test and work on your cold water
: tolerance - just to see how your body reacts in cold water. I
: don't mean to do anything dangerous or drastic, but to see how
: cold you can get before it gets uncomfortable.

: Just my 2 cents.

: Sean

It's certainly true you can condition yourself to cold water.

I remember hearing about a woman who slept with her windows open
during a northern winters to condition herself to cold water.

This is her: Lynne Cox's Brave Swim Across the Frigid Bering Strait Breaks the Ice with the Russians

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20096950,00.html

See this article. No one believed she could swim in the Bering sea without a wet suit.

Again, the difference between those who are prepared for the dangers and those who are not,

is death.

Rob

Messages In This Thread

Other: Cold Water Deaths
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/13/2011, 8:07 am
Re: Other: Cold Water Deaths
Sean Dawe -- 7/13/2011, 10:54 am
Re: Other: Cold Water Deaths
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/13/2011, 11:50 am
Re: Other: Cold Water Deaths
Malcolm Schweizer -- 7/13/2011, 6:20 pm
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Mike Savage -- 7/13/2011, 6:59 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 7/13/2011, 7:35 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 7/13/2011, 7:50 pm
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Mike Savage -- 7/14/2011, 8:13 am
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eric Ogata -- 7/14/2011, 2:18 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 7/13/2011, 7:42 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 7/14/2011, 9:13 am
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StephenHJ -- 7/14/2011, 3:03 pm
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Les Cheeseman -- 7/14/2011, 4:02 pm
Re: Other: Cold Water Deaths
Robert N Pruden -- 7/15/2011, 11:06 pm
Re: Other: Cold Water Deaths
Robert N Pruden -- 7/14/2011, 5:32 pm
Re: Other: Cold Water Deaths
Bryan Hansel -- 7/14/2011, 10:40 am