"Ken Heaton" wrote in
news:bo8je.5626$tt5.4135@edtnps90:

There is further information including a graph from which you can
extrapolate that in 50 deg F water your survival time would be many
days, long enough that food and water would become the problems.
There are further explanations including the information that, as this
is a dry suit, you can wear layers of clothing inside the suit,
enhancing further the protection provided by the survival suit.
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I want the wetsuit proponents to try something that will be important in
their FLOATING wetsuits, too.......

Jump in the water in your wetsuit and get wet.....

Now, crawl out on the dock (simulates getting out of the water into the
life raft....You DO have a life raft, right?).

Sit on the dock in the WET wetsuit and freeze to death from the evaporation
inside and outside the draining wetsuit for a while and see how long you
can last. It only keeps you warm if you're UNDERWATER where you can
maintain that tiny layer of interior water between you and the
neoprene....try it.

In the Mustang, or other proper survival suit, in the life raft, you'll
starve at 50F before freezing to death....

Thanks for the other poster pointing out the 10 hours in 32F water
rating...

I'm not really a 'proponent' of using a wetsuit as a survival suit, but
would suggest that the wetsuit is far far better than nothing

Larry W4CSC wrote:
I want the wetsuit proponents to try something that will be important in
their FLOATING wetsuits, too.......

Jump in the water in your wetsuit and get wet.....

Now, crawl out on the dock (simulates getting out of the water into the
life raft....You DO have a life raft, right?).

Sit on the dock in the WET wetsuit and freeze to death from the evaporation
inside and outside the draining wetsuit

Uh huh. And you think this is a problem? You think wet suits have to be
immersed to be warm? Try it yourself, that is not the case.

Been there, done that, wiped sweat off brow

DSK