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Essentials of sea survival

This is a comprehensive and informative guide to open-water survival, blending science with the authors' own research and examinations of real-life survival accounts. It provides up-to-date information on sustained survival in cold water a common sense approach to survival gear.
Print Book, English, ©2002
Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL, ©2002
Handbook
xiii, 305 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
9780736002158, 0736002154
49240132
A catalog of disaster
Basic physiology of survival
Behavioral thermoregulation
Initial and short-term immersion
Drowning and near drowning
Hypothermia
Survival time in cold water
Necessities for sustained survival: water and food
Castaways: survival in an open boat or life craft
Illnesses, injuries, and psychological trauma
Search and rescue and treatment of casualties