On 11 Jun 2008 13:21:21 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom>
wrote:

>
>LOL, that's a good one.  In the lifesaving course I took, we had to 
>recover from being in a canoe that was overturned while fully clothed.  
>Treading water is a bit more difficult because of the additional weight, 
>but you can fashion a very good floatation device out of a shirt or a 
>pair of pants if the fabric is kept wet.
>
In my "saving your own life" course, we were told. No swimming. Keep
your legs together and your arms tucked into your armpits. That's to
minimise heat loss. Of course we were talking about the Northern North
Sea where the sea temperatures reach about 11.5 C or 53 F in summer.

>Ouch.  I do occasionally have trouble with my hearing.  They did a graft 
>(so I can honestly say "sorry, I can't hear you - I've got a leg in my 
>ear!" - the skin used in the graft came from my left thigh, as I 
>recall).  The doctors were fairly amazed, though, that I didn't test with 
>any degredation in my hearing.
>
I lost some of mine with high noise levels, pardon? :)

>But my advice regarding perforating an eardrum and then continuing to 
>swim:  Don't.  It is without a doubt the single most painful thing that 
>has ever happened to me.  I've broken bones (my wrist and my leg, both 
>once), but chlorinated water on the auditory nerve far, far outstrips the 
>pain of breaking a bone.

I've heard that <g>
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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