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Article: Play it safe when it comes to cold water
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- Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
- Article date:
- May 20, 2007
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Cold water kills. If you don't believe it, or think that you're
too tough or too smart to wind up struggling for your life in wind-
whipped 50-degree water, talk to a warden diver.Or better yet, spend
a day with the Maine Warden Dive Team.
Every year in early spring, warden divers are called out of bed in
the middle of the night to work on a "recovery." At the water's edge,
they suit up in their scuba gear and frequently spend hours
underwater in a painstaking grid search for a "drowning" victim.
Often, the fisherman or the boater never drowned. He simply perished
from cold water immersion-hypothermia. A few years ago, victims of a
capsizing on Moosehead Lake were found - not by a warden ...