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Among those to whom google is a dangerous tool
hardly, but these cut asnd paste threads and the absence of logic in your defence of them can be considered so.
I am in serious doubt about the whole thing.
IMHO diving bare skin in such cold water results in such massive heat loss that cannot be "balanced out" by heat production.
Therefore, core temperature will continue dropping, eventually leading to the loss of consciousness. I have already descibed the feeling of degradation of sences (hearing, colour vision, motorics and sence of balance) that I experienced diving in such sub-cooled state.
This is not a "recreational" diving at all. This is more of a hard core experimental diving. I was blessed with waterfront cabin for a week, where I could interrupt my diving and with the help of a buddy to get back to the cabin and stay in a warm shower for a while. Even then recovery is slow and takes a while to get back to normal. Long term effects of such sub-cooling is not known, cannot be good anyway. We are talking sickening blow to our heat regulation process.
I wonder if you let the cooling reach the point where the temperature of the hypothalamus drops, it screws up thermoregulation.
For the record, there's another efect of extreme cold exposure.
Lynne Cox, the famous long distance swimmer, swam 1.4 km for 22 min at 0.5ºC in the Antarctic, wearing only a standard-issue bathing suit and rubber swim cap. The next day she swam 1.6 km for 25 minutes at 0.0ºC.
It was discovered later that she had sustained damage to the nerve endings in her skin, in particular the ones that sense pain. It took her quite some time to recover function, but it did come back.
The story is told in her book "Swimming to Antarctica", 2004, ISBN 0-15-603130-2
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