Re:The truth about cold water
by SkyMarshal on Friday July 09, 2010 @03:25PM
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What about after you're out of the cold water and on land? Take off the wet clothes and dry off naked, or leave them on for protection against wind chill? Or does it just depend on the wind chill and other circumstantial factors?
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It depends entirely on what sort of clothes they are. Wool will insulate you even when soaked, but wearing a pair of wet jeans is worse than wearing nothing at all.
They don't provide insulation, and only serve to make you wet and extract heat from you. Just like a wet towel wrapped around a champaign bottle.