"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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And many people die almost right away from cold water immersion shock.
They either gasp involuntarily and get a lung full of water and drown
or go into cardiac arrest. When we do our 18 day cruise in August, we
probably won't see a single person swimming without a wet or dry suit.
Some exceptions in shallow bays where the mudflats collect a lot of
solar energy at low tides and then warm up a few feet of water during
high tide- but few people go swimming on purpose.


Good Lord! I thought our water was cold. We're like a paradise compared to
those conditions.
Our North Shore boasts the warmest salt water north of the Carolinas.
(actually the Gulf of St Lawrence, rather than the North Atlantic ocean.)