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Re: Other: Cold Water Deaths
By:eric Ogata
Date: 7/14/2011, 2:18 pm
In Response To: Re: Other: Cold Water Deaths (Malcolm Schweizer)

: I'm curious if when people are conditioned to cold water do they
: reach a point where hypothermia still sets in but more rapidly.
: In other words, I wonder if they would go from feeling okay to
: being totally hypothermic with no in-between area like you and I
: would. With shallow water blackout you just go from swimming
: along minding your own business to dead. Boom. You pass out, and
: if not brought to surface in just seconds you will die. The few
: that have survived have said there was no feeling of needing
: air, no warning- just suddenly they blacked out. I wonder if a
: person conditioned to cold would still reach a point where they
: just rapidly hit hypothermia similar to free-divers that black
: out suddenly.

: Cheers,

: Malcolm

Apparently, it's just not predictable...

http://swimmingthechannel2008.blogspot.com/2009/03/keep-swimming-hypothermia-scare.html

eric
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Ogata

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
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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
Re: Other: Cold Water Deaths
eric Ogata -- 7/14/2011, 2:18 pm
Re: Other: Cold Water Deaths
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