: 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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