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Old 09-30-2019, 07:22 PM   #8
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The lake water temperature in April right after ice out is about 38-degrees.

Without a pfd, one can drown in 30-seconds if you fall out of a boat into ice water over one's head because the sudden immersion into icy cold water can cause you to gasp and inhale water.

Best thing to do is to wear a pfd and tightly cover your mouth with your hand as you are falling. If you survive the first two minutes without panic, then one can survive for 45-minutes in icy cold water. After about ten minutes, your hands and legs start to freeze up, and you lose the use of your fingers and hands and feet and legs, but you is still alive and can survive.

After 15-minutes in icy water that's five feet deep, it takes about 15 painful minutes in a 104-degree hot tub to get back to feeling normal and getting through the hand, arms, feet and leg defrosting pain. You don't get immediately warm despite the 104-degree water.

www.mythicdrysuits.com iin Maine has a real good, Chinese made, dry suit from $249 and one can wear insulating long underwear that stays dry, under a dry suit. Good for cold water paddling, rowing, sailing and stand up paddle boarding.

Yes, dry suits are dry, and wet suits are wet, and it makes a totally huge difference.

www.divein.com/articles/cold-water-diving/ .... there's a lot that can go wrong diving under icy water, so unless you are dredging for gold in Alaska or part of a Navy or law enforcement dive team, is best to forget about it and stay on the surface. Plus, there's nothing down here in Lake Winnipesaukee except a lot of rocks and silt, so why bother to risk it diving in icy cold water?

You is better off going skiing, and getting cold on the ski slopes.
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