: 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