Received: from hplms26.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA16377; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:02:42 -0700 Return-Path: <sdubois@Advent.COM-DeleteThis> Received: from mozart.Advent.COM by hplms26.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1S) id AA098990477; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:41:26 -0700 Received: from smtp_out.advent.com (smtp_out [204.243.141.5]) by mozart.Advent.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA21697 for <wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:22:38 -0700 Received: from cc:Mail by smtp_out.advent.com id AA811459384; Mon, 18 Sep 95 14:05:17 PST Date: Mon, 18 Sep 95 14:05:17 PST From: sdubois@Advent.COM-DeleteThis Message-Id: <9508188114.AA811459384@smtp_out.advent.com-DeleteThis> To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Re[2]: The ultimate safety kit
For statistics purpose only. It took me 1.5 hour once to swim/walk
from the channel marker during a 25 knots-no current day. I swam while
pulling/pushing the board loaded with the rig for 2/3 of the way and
walked barely touching the bottom the last 1/3. I was wearing a full
4/3. Temperature was okay, skin irritation was not...
I would not even try swimming from outside the channel. That's why I
carry a radio...
-stephane
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Subject: Re: The ultimate safety kit
Author: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis at Internet
Date: 9/18/95 12:22 PM
'LafingGuy@aol.com-DeleteThis says:'
> <Unless you have a really unique metabolism, you would be <hypothermic in
> about 30 minutes. The swim would probably <take you the better part of
> four-to-six hours.
>
> Woah, hold on, I'm sure at least 10 if not 30 people have walked/swum in from
> the channel (me being one of them, and no I'm not counting myself 30x),
> usually in over 1/2 an hour and I don't recall any hypothermic activity. Jay,
> are you enjoying this?
His note said the far side of the channel, and Superman could not make
that swim in 30 minutes.
He also said he was wearing a shorty. I think a 4/3 could make a
multi-hour swim without much problem. Someone wearing a shorty is
going to get hypothermic before they get back.
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