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Old 11-06-2008
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Originally Posted by tommays View Post
There are time/temp tables out there

Cold Water Survival

I can tell you from a lifetime of waterskiing and from cleaning my bottom in October water 30 minutes was a long time

And the sea state had to speed things up a lot
Cool. Thanks tom. So it looks like between 3 hours and "indefinitely" - taking into account the other factors. I presume you'd advocate for having a suit aboard for open water - and maybe even water skiing?
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