Frozen Water?Freezing Water?

BECAUSE YOU ASKED:

This is not one we hear a lot of people asking about, but we feel it is something quite a few of us could benefit having a freshers on!

 

 

Cold water can kill you in less than a minute. It’s actually so dangerous that it kills a lot of people within seconds. Thousands of people have drowned after falling into cold water and a lot of them died before they even had a chance to reach the surface. That’s a scientific and medical fact that most people have trouble understanding – because they have no personal experience actually being in cold water. When they hear or think about 50F (10C) water, it doesn’t sound particularly cold – or dangerous – because they’re mentally comparing it to 50F (10C) air. It’s a big mistake that gets a lot of people killed each year. This is explained in much greater detail in the section Why Cold Water is Dangerous.  click here to continue reading