Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Survival at Sea - Oh Lord the ship is on fire/sinking/exploding/disagreeable" video.

  1. 35:32 Not to mention that their design was somewhat flawed, and might hinder breathing at times...
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  2. Regarding surviving the cold of water. Wear *wool*. Not cotton. Wool keeps having insulating properties even when wet. So wool on the inside with something outside that's thin and water proof might be a good idea. (And while wearing heavy stuff might be a bad idea further south, up north around here in Norway, you're way more likely to freeze to death first then to sink first due to heavy clothing) Also, for the record, freezing cold water is most unpleasant... I was in a Norwegian "folkhighschool" (search for "Folk high school" on wikipedia, they're a thing in the nordic countries and Germany at least, possibly elsewhere too) that had a sailing line. Right before the christmass vaccation we had a course where we had to take our traditional wooden sailing vessel, turn it upside down in the water (our teacher was complaining about the water not being cold enough, there was a little bit of sea ice on the shore by the way, the sea being saltier then fresh water, meaning that to freeze you need lower temperature, as you can imagine it wasn't pleasant, and of course there was snow on land) anyway, we had to turn the boat upside down and jump into the water (not sure if the turning or the jumping happened first, its a few years ago), then we had to turn it back the right way around from in the water (thankfully wood floats in water, even if the boat is full of water). Get into the boat ourselves from the outside. Bail the boat empty of water. Oh, right, yes, then we had to jump out of the boat and swim ashore, when it was my turn the tide had turned and it was flowing a bit outwards... I was wearing a lot of wool with rain coats, rain boots etc outside. Yeah, I was definitively heavy, but honestly that wasn't my main problem... At least the cloths kept me warm. Unfortunatly as I was swimming one of my two boots came off, as well as the sock on that foot. That foot ended up icy cold. Once I got ashore and started heating up the other foot, the clothed one was okey. The exposed one slowly headed up in my sleeping bag too, but I could feel how the bones in that foot was way colder then the blood in the foot around it. And I've never been that cold before or since. Swimming ashore that day was the coldest thing I've ever experienced, and pretty scary to be honest, despite the teacher etc being close by to help if need be. I'm not a good swimmer, and I was struggling with staying above the surface. But I did get ashore.
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