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| On jumping into a MO mine pit with the water in the high 30s...Once that cold water hit I watched my body freak out, limbs numb and hard to move and I couldn't breath because the all the muscles in my torso locked up. Had I caught water in my lungs I couldn't have caughed it out. Took me 10 long seconds to climb out and then 10 later I could sorta breath again.
My new boat has a boarding ladder. If I drop in the cold drink I'll have a few seconds to grab the ladder and a few more to pull myself into the boat. Those polar plunge people could do lots better but not me, 20 or so seconds in and I would have a very hard time getting up the ladder.
If the boat were underway, even just wind drift, well see ya in the next life.
Trick is to not fall out. Marathon guys doing figure 8s on a deck in wind over cold water are nuts.
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