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If you're interested in this topic, watch this film based on a true story about an Icelander who survived at sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deep_(2012_fi
by thorin 9y ago
If you're interested in this topic, watch this film based on a true story about an Icelander who survived at sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deep_(2012_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deep_(2012_film)
- ptaipale 9y agoThat man must be an interesting sample for the research of human physiology.
- 8_hours_ago 9y agoAnd they did study him! Article about it in New Scientist: https://books.google.com/books?id=rYIJJP7audkC&lpg=PA26&dq=gudlaugur%20fridthorsson&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=rYIJJP7audkC&lpg=PA26&dq=g... Here's the study "Exceptional case of survival in cold water": http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/292/6514/171.2.full.pdf http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/292/6514/171.2.full.pdf They immersed him in 5.3C water for 83 minutes, and only stopped the experiment because of discomfort in his feet. His temperature only dropped by about 1C.
- ptaipale 9y agoYes, that was remarkable. That paper says he was a large man with some body fat, but from what I recall (an Icelandic colleague once referred to this), the fat type in his body differed from that usually found in people. Children have "brown fat" which usually changes to "white fat" in adults, but this man had a far higher than normal composition of "brown fat" for an adult.