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Old 01-11-2016, 03:27 PM   #27
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I know from large amounts of rescues, survival training, training up through water safety instructor instructor and several falls into the water myself......disorientation is not panic.

One is often fatal, the other just a result of an unintentional act....they can go from one to the other, they can even coexist, but one is not the other.

An unexpected fall will usually result in disorientation. Warm water, no pain and daylight let's you see through it quickly...add all those things and disorientation can be hard to regain.

Add that to the other parameters can be a game changer from the armchair evaluation so making it to the boat isn't a given.

Thus a good reason to do what you can to avoid this situation of parameters that I see as a probable no self recovery situation. Not many might wind up with all those parameters....but risk management should have you anning to minimize those hazards.
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