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Reply #1 - Feb 5th, 2020 at 11:38am
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Wow.
  
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Yeah I'd say so...
  
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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?
  
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Reply #4 - Feb 5th, 2020 at 2:56pm
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solotripper wrote on Feb 5th, 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?



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.
  
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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
  
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Reply #6 - Feb 6th, 2020 at 12:09pm
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My goggling suggests the water temperature was in the 70s.  Not a warm bath but is that really cold?
  
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BillConner wrote on Feb 6th, 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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