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Cold Water Information
What you don't know about "cold" water can kill you!
Find out what our lake water can do to your body in a matter of minutes!
Warm air temperature has nothing to do with surviving cold water!!
Most information about cold water and the human body comes from Canadian research (Dr. Gordon Giesbrecht, aka Professor Popsicle). His Cold Water Boot Camp offers a broad range of information from thermoregulation to surviving cold-water immersion. Boating, government, and TV sources have proliferated his findings, including here in the US.
[Canadians use degrees Celsius. Here is a quick conversion that will usually get you to within 1-2oF: simply multiply the Celsius temperature by 2 and add 30. (oC x 2) + 30 = oF]
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How Your Body Regulates Its Temperature
How Your Body Looses Heat in Cold Water (it's not through the head!) Rewarming for Survival (starts at 41:25)
Circum-Rescue Collapse (starts at 10:06)
More on "after drop" WEAR YOUR LIFE JACKET! Cold-water immersion can kill you long before hypothermia sets it. See how here. |
Cold Water Boot Camp Videos
Cold Water Boot Camp, 10 Minute Feature from Brendan O'Donnell on Vimeo.
Here's a more complete video version (~32 mins)
of Cold Water Boot Camp.
of Cold Water Boot Camp.