That’s cold

    The East Grand Outdoor Education class gained respect for cold water and cold water related injuries by standing in a tub of ice water, participating in a ‘frozen foot’ object lesson.
EXPERIMENTAL LEARNING – East Grand students, from left, Mitchell Bartlett, Dustin Miller and Cleve Kenyon learn first hand the effects of cold water as they stand in a tub of ice water.
    The students weighed a set of cotton clothes (hoodies, jeans, t-shirt) against a synthetic set of clothing.
    The clothing was dunked in water, weighed and reweighed an hour later. The students did the same with the synthetic clothing. The results found the cotton set of clothing retaining much more water, providing less insulating value, while the synthtic set shed most its water, providing more dead air or trapped air in the fabric.
WOW – Kaithlyn Beaudion gives the ice water a test during an Outdoor Education class at East Grand School.
    The hypothesis is a person is better off with wool and synthetics then cotton if he/she falls into water and then gets back out during this time of year.
    As canoe season quickly approaches, cold water injuries takes lives in Maine due to hypothermia, falling through ice and capsizing on Maine's numerous lakes, ponds and rivers.