Sea survival suggestion - would it work?

[bedouin]

Oilies are designed to keep green water out so they do a pretty good job of stopping much water flowing - and they have the benefit of being fairly close fitting so there is less water near you to warm up.

I would have thought (without doing the sums) that the amount of water trapped in a survival bug would be too great to warm up, and still allow interchange of the water close to the skin with that in the bag

Anyway - if you're in the drink you shouldn't be moving.

 

[peterb]

Re: lakesailoring sidebar

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Um, i think there is enough similarity for a Danger of Lakesailoring to exist, so i will give way to cruiser2b and and hereby apologise. Except, erm i can't edit it, so just have to hope it turns out ok.

However, technically my post went a bit further and suggstd simoncr tries it. But there is enough similarity for lakesailoring despite my post suggesting the same issues as crusier2b and importantly, as though they were first and original, instead of merely second and original.

BrendanS - you are correct that the lakesailoring has not been completed, but a Danger of Lakesailoring nevertheless exists.

Also note that the same or similar answer merely has to be within the same thread - it does not have to be a directly-tagged reposnse to the original poster but sort-of-obviously in the same thread. Otherwise we could have (using the BrendanS Standard Illustration 2007 of Lakesailoring)

A question
..B answer
..C gosh, A, I bet nobody knows the answer to that
....D answer
......A thanks D

This is still lakesailoring, eventho D did not "answer" A directly. The danger exists before A's thanking of D (instead of B). Crusier2b is fair enough to raise the protest and i suppose, again, the rules oughta be changed a bit to make it clear.

Note that simoncr did not thank either of us, so the actual full akesailor has been avoided, at least for the time being.

However, depite the care of Cruiser2b - who clearly recognises the danger of rule 9a (where he's always wrong) we are nevertheless here involved in a lakesailoring discussion with cruiser2b - and so rule 9a applies regardless, and despite him being absolutely correct about a danger of lakesailoring, he nevertheless somehow "loses" the discussion. So, i'm sorry about that as well, but rules is rules.


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And I thought Colregs were complicated!

 

[Cruiser2B]

Re: lakesailoring sidebar

Thanks for clearing that up. I was under the impression that a rule 4 violation was "lakesailoring" and a rule 5 violation was a "full lakesailoring". Your apology accepted, notwithstanding my legislated "loss" of the discussion. Cheers.

 

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Thank you for your frank opinion on my comment. When water, from whatever source, attempts to enter the trachea, laryngospasm occurs, sealing the passageway completely. This may lead to water entering the stomach. If laryngospasm continues after unconciousness dry drowning occurs i.e cardiac arrest. If the spasm relaxes wet drowning occurs after unconciousness . You refer to secondary drowning occurring after drowning:drowning, by definition, results in death and secondary drowning could not subsequently occur. Neither is secondary drowning related to the suffocating effects of inhaled liquid but to pulmonary oedema, i.e. body fluid forming in the lungs.

My original statement may have been poorly worded and perhaps a little pedantic but I do not think it was "rubbish" by any means.