>Note: It still isnt comfy and your bits will go numb, but you can easily survive 5-20 minutes in various cold water temps. It really doesn't matter your menta

>Note: It still isnt comfy and your bits will go numb, but you can easily survive 5-20 minutes in various cold water temps. It really doesn't matter your mental toughness, your body has a physical reaction to that kind of water temperature. It seizes up and you can go into shock. People die all the time from falling or jumping into cold water that would be bearable if you eased into it and had training. I worked as a river guide for a few years on a high altitude stretch of canyons where the water was coming directly off alpine snowpack at ~34 degrees, and people would die every year. Not from drowning in the rapids or prolonged exposure, but just going into shock and having a heart attack immediately after falling in.