Re:Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean
by thorin on Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:19AM
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If you're interested in this topic, watch this film based on a true story about an Icelander who survived at sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deep_(2012_film)
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Re:Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean
by ptaipale on Thursday January 25, 2018 @05:40AM
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That man must be an interesting sample for the research of human physiology.
Re:Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean
by 8_hours_ago on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:11PM
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And they did study him!
Article about it in New Scientist: https://books.google.com/books?id=rYIJJP7audkC&lpg=PA26&dq=g...
Here's the study "Exceptional case of survival in cold water": http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/292/6514/171.2.full.pdf
They immersed him in 5.3C water for 83 minutes, and only stopped the experiment because of discomfort in his feet. His temperature only dropped by about 1C.
Re:Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean
by ptaipale on Friday January 26, 2018 @10:40AM
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Yes, that was remarkable. That paper says he was a large man with some body fat, but from what I recall (an Icelandic colleague once referred to this), the fat type in his body differed from that usually found in people. Children have "brown fat" which usually changes to "white fat" in adults, but this man had a far higher than normal composition of "brown fat" for an adult.