Surviving Alaska

Yeah, they are different, but I'm not sure which is better. Confused

Would you rather be warm or dry? Surprised

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	flashlightfreak9 wrote:
	Yeah, they are different, but I'm not sure which is better. Would you rather be warm or dry?

Both.....

Dry, wet skin saps heat away from your body faster than dry skin. Thats my opinion at least Very Happy

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	Brian wrote:
	Dry, wet skin saps heat away from your body faster than dry skin. Thats my opinion at least

Yeah, but the point of a wetsuit is to heat the water on the inside of the suit. Water's a really good insulator. Personally I don't know what suit i'd want.

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I would rather be warm. Very Happy

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I just heard something big crack�.. holy crap!-Les Stroud

I would think that letting water into your suit would make it more difficult to float and make it harder on your to survive? Cool

yea that makes sense the water could weigh you down. Sad

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I just heard something big crack�.. holy crap!-Les Stroud

also, as the water drops cold at night, it will sap away your body heat from the water directly around you, so the wet suit is better than nothing, but in my opinion, the more dry you are, the longer you will last in a survival situation. Just my thought

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	Brian wrote:
	Dry, wet skin saps heat away from your body faster than dry skin. Thats my opinion at least

But if you heard Les, he said he didn't fasten something properly, and water was getting to his hands. Cold. Shocked

Both suits come with a flotation device attached to it, so you won't go under. I've seen an empty survival suit on Deadliest Catch floating by itself. Not to mention the salt water helps you float.

I would pick the warm survival suit because even if you stay completely dry in the gumby suit(however unlikely that may be), the cold can still get to you. I would rather be warm, and pray the Coast Guard comes soon. Smile

Just my 2 cents.

Cheers. Cool

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but in the Bering Sea, a wet suit will kill you in minutes. Doesn't matter how fast your body warms the water, it will suck the heat away from you faster. The Gumby Suit is a special survival suit and his gloves weren't put on properly, if they had been, he would have been dry/warm longer. From all the survival things I have seen, you don't want to go in the water ever even if it feels warmer than the air, because it saps away body heat. There was an "I shouldn't be alive" about that now that I think about it

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The suit itself heats the water. There is something special about the materials of the suit that warms the water in it.

I'm not trying to get into an argument here, I was just making my point. Smile

Cheers.

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Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. - Prov. 27:17

	flashlightfreak9 wrote:
	The suit itself heats the water. There is something special about the materials of the suit that warms the water in it. I'm not trying to get into an argument here, I was just making my point. Cheers.

The cold water comes in then your body heats that water. Then that water just stays there in the suit, and doesn't get replaced by cold water. Water's a really good insulator. That's how a wetsuit works. Cool

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Well then I guess we shall agree to disagree Smile

I say potato you say potato (unfortunately they are spelled the same) Laughing

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I call them taters....lol Laughing

	LaraCroft wrote:
	I call them taters....lol

Now that is just being obnoxious Razz

but its ok, I call em that too sometimes

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	LaraCroft wrote:
	I call them taters....lol

Me too.

Mystik Spiral wrote:

	flashlightfreak9 wrote:
	The suit itself heats the water. There is something special about the materials of the suit that warms the water in it. I'm not trying to get into an argument here, I was just making my point. Cheers.

The cold water comes in then your body heats that water. Then that water just stays there in the suit, and doesn't get replaced by cold water. Water's a really good insulator. That's how a wetsuit works. Cool

I'm not so sure. I think you are thinking of a diver's wetsuit. This is what the fishermen use. Smile

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Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. - Prov. 27:17

LMBO......Glad to know I'm not alone. Wink

I understand your point about cold, Brian, so we'll just leave it at that. Smile

Cheers.

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Very informative, not very entertaining, I liked it.

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-Idleness brings want
To work today is to eat tomorrow
It is best to prepare for the days of necessity

That's a very good interpretation, hazey. Cool

Cheers.

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Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. - Prov. 27:17