This is relevant if you do things on frozen bodies of water:

http://www.exn.ca/video/?Video=exn20020325-icewater.asx


Very good vid.

jh

 

EXCELLENT video! Thanks for posting that. We do a lot of cold water/ice safety classes, and hopefully, we'll be able to show it to our students.

chaikwa.

 

What is all that white stuff on top of the water? It looks hard.

Good information. Sure hope that never happens to my swimming pool.

 

Good video.
I went through the ice with my snowmobile way back in 82.

Two of us were heading along the shoreline of the lake to the river on Dec 1.
Brad was ahead of me and the back end of his sled broke water and I was unable to steer away and down I went.
There was no panic. I was in there for at least 15 minutes while Brad got to shore and got a rope from a fisherman nearby.

The old yellow rope and Brad saved my life. It was tough getting out as I had my steel toed work boots on, plus there was a wind that kept glazing my face shield and the snowmobile suit was getting real heavy.
I kept breaking ice as Brad pulled and finally I got onto some solid ice.

We hopped on his sled, thanked the old guy and went home.
All my gear was froze and I could barely move. If he went too fast, I slid off the sled and if he went too slow, well, we needed to get home.
I went straight past my mom in the kitchen into the shower with all my gear on...I had to melt it off with the shower.

I shook the same as in the video and we were out there the next day with divers getting the sled out.

Scotty
p.s. it was -40 and no open water could be seen but it was a strong current at the mouth of the river where we hit the thin ice.
We know that lake and river real well, the current had changed.

 

gives me something to look forward too... I will probably be taking offshore survival training in a couple months..

 

It usually doesent get that cold here long enough that anything gets frozen enough for you to even get out on it enough to matter, but that is a very good video.

Eric

 

Seriously, don't go IN the water after anybody either, especially if you don't know for fact you would be able to stand up. It's easy to tell yourself you can tuff it out, but your body goes through stages that are not in your control as it cools down. Everybody reacts almost identically. In less than a minute, you lose any function needed to help somebody else much less have anything to get yourself back out. In less than a minute, your thought process and ability to reason goes downhill fast. Even if you can't find a device or tool to to help reach, simply not takeing your eyes off the victims location can save his life, by getting the rescuers steered the right way so they can revive safely. The cold water will help the odds when it comes to reviveing.