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Nov 23, 2016 - 07:46pm PT
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the museum
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the museum
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Nov 24, 2016 - 07:54am PT
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the museum
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 24, 2016 - 08:51am PT
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Nov 26, 2016 - 08:44am PT
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the museum
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Nov 26, 2016 - 06:56pm PT
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Ghost
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A long way from where I started
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Nov 27, 2016 - 09:36am PT
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Thanksgiving scene, Seattle. All the other swimmers had wetsuits.
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perswig
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Nov 27, 2016 - 11:24am PT
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No need to tell her to HTFU.
Extra credit for the 2-piece; she looks good in it.
Dale
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Ghost
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A long way from where I started
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Nov 27, 2016 - 11:40am PT
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No need to tell her to HTFU.
No sh#t. That water was _cold_, and she was just coming ashore after a long swim. Didn't seem to mind the cold breeze, either, because she hung out on the shore talking to another swimmer for quite a while.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 27, 2016 - 11:40am PT
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perswig
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Nov 27, 2016 - 11:50am PT
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Guido, that's excellent!
Re: cold water - I'll leave this as a placeholder for a tale I'll try to dig up from a frogman-type.
Dale
[found it - apologies for the thread drift. Recollection of a Navy diver during an FTX or whatever squids call 'em.
"Picture a joint (training) op, North Sea. Naval SOF/Combat Swimmers/etc. from several different nations.
Also keep in mind that the guys from each unit are (ahem) ‘acclimated’ to the additional suckage that comes with having ‘NW Europe’ as their AO.
Picture weather and seas so bad, that the guys, in general, as a group, are just smashed. Crushed, frozen, lifeless in appearance, no energy. Done. A long couple of days and nights, with the last night and day being at least 5x (not joking) worse than the previous.
And a couple of them, recovering on a platform way too small to provide any real solace from the current sea state, become aware of a swimmer heading to their temporary, entirely inadequate oasis. Being 2km off the coast, something is obviously up, because said swimmer isn’t heading to shore, and he’s closer to shore when initially spotted. Not going to get into the additional time and energy required to swim to the aforementioned platform when temp and sea state is taken into account.
And upon recovery, said Swimmer (capital S now officially necessary) is a Creature from the Frømandskorpset. Really, more of an Avatar of some long forgotten Walrus Combat God of Warfare and Death. I say ‘Walrus’ because of a thick (all steel, no rubber) build and appropriate (facial) hair.
Because The Avatar came aboard, inquired about hot beverages available, traded glances with his frozen, pounded colleagues (every one of them a pipe hitting combat swimmer with lots of extra cold suckage time to his credit), pounded 2 large mugs of hot beverage, and then said words to the effect of ‘Okay, I am going home now’.
And then he jumped back in and for all we knew, swam to shore and home.
I think he probably bit a shark or two to death on the way to shore to take the edge off."]
Edit: (Who the hell shoots Chuck freakin' Yeager? Blasphemy!) Guido, I think the Avatar was thought to be one of the Danish instructor cadre, as the discussion was about the Danish Navy and its early implementation of scout swimmers; apparently, although tiny, this group is highly respected in that community even today.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 27, 2016 - 12:54pm PT
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perswig-Oh, for a mere photo of said "animal." Language would be a token? Multiple dialects? Country of origin?
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 28, 2016 - 07:02pm PT
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 29, 2016 - 11:29am PT
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Bah, hamburger!
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Studly
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WA
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Nov 29, 2016 - 11:32am PT
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Wise Acres
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Nov 30, 2016 - 11:05pm PT
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Studly
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WA
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Having a drink of living water
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 3, 2016 - 07:29pm PT
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