On 24 Jan 2002, at 10:19, David Strike wrote:

> On Thursday, January 24, 2002 12:06 AM, Mike Wallace wrote:
>
> > Jeez, what a wimp!  :-)
>
> Mate!  Us wimps are the yardstick by which brave men are measured.
> Without us there'd be no heroes!  :-)  (On the other hand, something
> about fools rushing in, also springs to mind!) :-)

It definitely pays to be at the end of the fools rushing in line!  :-)


>
> > In all seriousness though, we had a training session for our SAR
> > team this past weekend that dealt with cold water drownings.
>
> (Good stuff snipped)
>
> > Also of note for us COBS on the list, our survival rate is pretty
> > abysmal in cold water drownings and near drownings. The survival
> > starts to drop drastically after about 10 years of age.
>
> > Another interesting point is that once immersed in cold water, young
> > children tend to die first, women second and men last. If recovered
> > within an hour of being submerged the survival rates are exactly
> > reversed. The youngsters survive more readily followed by women,
> > then the men.
>
> There was a good training video making the rounds a few years ago
> about cold water drownings.  From memory it was called, "The Golden
> Hour" and detailed cases where people who had apparently died from
> drowning in cold water, (I forget the exact definition of 'cold' - but
> I believe it was somewhere in the 70 deg. F. mark) were subsequently
> resuscitated and survived.

This could very well be the same video. I didn't catch the title but I
believe that some of the information on the end of the one related to
some pretty current aircraft being used. The presenter of the video
was a Capt. Neumeyer of the U. S. Coast Guard.

The 70 f mark is what he indicated is considered as cold also, but
most of the cases that he related in the video where in 50f or less.


>
> > It was an interesting way to kill a few hours on Sunday. :-)
>
> Mate!  You'll go straight to hell for that one!  :-)))

Hehehehe... yeah, well, if that's the best reason they can come up
for me to cook, then let 'em have at it.....


>
> Strike
>


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