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Title: Call him LUCKY!
Post by solotripper on Feb 4^th, 2020 at 5:10pm

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Title: Re: Call him LUCKY!
Post by BillConner on Feb 5^th, 2020 at 11:38am

Wow.

Title: Re: Call him LUCKY!
Post by cyclones30 on Feb 5^th, 2020 at 1:59pm

Yeah I'd say so...

Title: Re: Call him LUCKY!
Post by solotripper on Feb 5^th, 2020 at 2:27pm

What's more amazing to me that he survived in that chilly water that long is that some Gator didn't take a bite out of him?

Maybe that cold water kept the Gators onshore in a slumber?

The article doesn't say but I wonder why he didn't paddle over to the shore?

Title: Re: Call him LUCKY!
Post by the8wtfiasco on Feb 5^th, 2020 at 2:56pm

solotripper wrote on Feb 5^th, 2020 at 2:27pm:

I wondered the same thing(s). I assume the cold water kept the gators away but I don't get why he didn't paddle to shore. Unless he was hurt or something? Either way, he's lucky to be alive that's for sure.

Title: Re: Call him LUCKY!
Post by cyclones30 on Feb 5^th, 2020 at 3:04pm

He was in super shallow muddy water. You could see the boat motors churning up as much mud as they were water. He probably wasn't even really floating as much as he was ran aground. (you can see the mud in the water he'd stirred up around him before the boats get there) Kind of odd

Title: Re: Call him LUCKY!
Post by BillConner on Feb 6^th, 2020 at 12:09pm

My goggling suggests the water temperature was in the 70s. Not a warm bath but is that really cold?

Title: Re: Call him LUCKY!
Post by solotripper on Feb 6^th, 2020 at 4:04pm

BillConner wrote on Feb 6^th, 2020 at 12:09pm:

My goggling suggests the water temperature was in the 70s. Not a warm bath but is that really cold?

This hypothermia chart is very informative. You can get hypothermic and you can die in water that warm based on wind and your tolerance to it.
Even though the water was in the 70s, you have to factor in the wind speed at the time too.
What I don't get is why he didn't get to shore when he first went over?
Stories like this rarely answer questions they just leave you wondering?

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