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Apparently he survived because he was fat.
👤cromulent🕑15y🔼0🗨️0
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"Múkki" isn't an imagined sailor's friend. It's the Northern Fulmar, an abundant sea bird. He was talking to the birds he saw overhead to pass the time.
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Guðlaugur was dressed in jeans, shirt and sweater, with nothing on his feet. He did not know that wet clothes draw heat from the body 20 times faster than dry ones. [1]
I'm curious what should I do if I fall into cold water: should I really take my clothes off or not? The first option sounds a bit counter intuitive to me.
By the way, how can people swim in jeans or other clothes? I find it very hard, it's like dragging some weights.
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I live in Michigan's UP, and there was a sailor who fell out of one of the shipping boats... at night. Lake Superior is 40-45 degrees out there, at best. He swam to miles shore and managed to knock on the door of an elderly couple.
I'm impressed. That guy must be so fit.
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His descriptions are chilling. "When the ship sank from underneath us and we were submerged for the second time we decided [the three of us] to swim. We decided not to help each other which would have been hopeless. We spotted the lighthouse and started swimming towards it. Soon there was only the two of us left calling between us, but soon enough I stopped hearing any calls."
More amazingness: On his way to shore a ship came within 100m of him. He spoke to "múkki" an imagined sailor's friend on the way, told himself jokes and said some prayers. When he came to shore he had to hold onto a rock wall while waiting for the tide to recede. While walking he spotted a bathtub used for lifestock feeding he punched through a layer of ice to get drinking water.