• sailingbythelee@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That’s a great story. Ocean survival courses teach the 1-10-1 rule. If you are immersed in cold water, it takes 1 minute for catch your breath and orient yourself. You then have 10 minutes of useful movement before your hands stiffen up, and one hour until you are fully incapacitated. And “cold” means water at 15C or less, which is typical of the north Atlantic.