[specialp]

The most important aspect of this is he was wearing a 5mil wetsuit. All of the rest of the things they mentioned are much smaller factors in him staying warm. The wetsuit also makes him slightly more buoyant. I kayak in the winter and have a dry suit, and a 5mil wetsuit when the water gets a bit warmer. In the winter my survival time would be minutes unprotected. The most dangerous time of year is May and June as unprotected kayakers come out in response to the warm air temperature. But the water is still very cold.

In that water he would have succumb to hypothermia in hours. I spent 2 hours wading in water with no protection in the same temperature that he was in. My body temp was 95 degrees, lower than his after 72.

[totalZero]

> 95 degrees

this sounds dangerous. Just curious, why were you in 60deg water for two hours?

[EGreg]

When the sun is shining on you btw you get additional heat you don't get when diving underwater