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Is this pretty accurate? If so, then it's Wicked Pissa!



Bawstin!

Bostonians...think that 63-degree ocean water is warm.

They're right.

It only surpasses that anywhere in SoCal occasionally, on the hottest days.
Newport Beach (aka "Surf City") for example.

Swimming in the Pacific Ocean, going through the surf and out to swim buoys and such, I would get hypothermic in about 15 minutes without a wetsuit in water that was 62 degrees. But then I had about 8% body fat and was in triathlete condition and absolutely HATED being cold and when cold, I quickly lost body temp.

One time, after a long ocean swim (about 3/4 mile) in 61 degree water, I was with a bunch of co-workers and trying to eat lunch, but was shivering so badly it was making everyone else cold just looking at me (I believe the SEALs call it "jack-hammering"). I EVENTUALLY warmed up, but man was my jaw sore from shivering so long and hard!!

With my body fat level raised CONSIDERABLY after hitting 40 many years ago, I no longer HATE being cold, but rather HATE being hot!!

How times change!!! LOL!!

Back in July of 'ninety and five, I took a three-day cruise on the Isaac H. Evans out of Rockland, Maine (great fun, highly recommended). The last evening of the trip we anchored in some cove with some other schooners and, after sailing the yawl boat around the anchorage for a little while, some of us decided to take a swim. It was an unseasonably hot July, as the locals said, and the water was pretty comfortable...

...the top six inches or so, anyway. Below that it was AREYOUFINESTKINDKIDDINGME????

I made it once around the schooner (she was about 60' at the waterline, and I gave her a wide berth) and couldn't draw a full breath any more, so I got the heck out.

Returning from the 77 Scout Jamboree, my troop overnighted in Chicago at the Naval Reserve armory on the lake.

They opened the pool for us. The water came straight from Lake Michigan, and while cleaned and filtered, was not heated. The custodian forgot to mention that little detail.

Sauna/hot tub into cold water has been popular since the Romans - makes every muscle go limp.

But, an outdoor pool, in Belarus, in January, is COLD! (It was very shallow, and fast moving - and must have been heated to an extent, given everything around it was snow and ice.)