Fantastic article on cold water recovery

[Dan Daniel]

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These guys training is crazy! The shivering in the vid almost made me sick.
Dan Daniel

[tomOzarkVideo]

big thanks for sharing!

[Renee H]

That was a very interesting read!

[paddledog]

Excellent stuff.....
I am downloading and compiling a selection of the videos
to show at the next NWA chapter meeting.
The written portion will be going into my Swiftwater manual.
Nice find Dan.

[okieboater]

To add personal experience to the article.

Couple years ago on the GC, I thought I could bust a hole just below Hance. Great run of Hance in my 18 Ft Aire Cataraft and I had stripped down to cotton tee shirt and shorts. Nice sunny day!

I remember squaring up and pushing oars forward, suddenly hurled up and over the front tubes and hit the water. Raft did not flip. No problem, I worked thru a series of rapids and saw my boat. Still no problem, I thought I would just swim over and crawl up and over the row of rocket boxes in the front compartment. Then every think went blank. Zero warning. Walter Felton later told me I had ahold of the cataraft's front cross bar, body still in the water but was not able to talk when he got his big cat boat to me. It took a couple of our kayakers to eventually get me into Walter's big catboat. We had a very experienced operation room nurse kayaker along, one very experienced rafter doctor and one very experienced doctor kayaker along and they all worked together to get me on Walter's raft. I woke up some time later totally dressed in the rafter doc's fleece. Wondering what happened. The rafter doc kept a full set of fleece sox, longs, top and hat all heavy weight in a dry bag clipped into his rowing compartment. said he had used it a bunch. I added the same setup to my gear after the incident and recommend others consider doing the same.

Bottom line. No matter what the air temp, it is the water temp that will kill you especially in GC, Middle Fork etc type of water. Even more important is no matter how experienced you are and how good a swimmer you are, in certain situations you will be totally helpless and dependent on your buds. Many thanks go out to those folks who took care of me on that day. Please learn from my experience!!!!

[Half Ton]

Good stuff Dan ! Thanks for posting it up.