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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:41:19 CST
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- From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
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- > It isn't *my* sense of hot and cold (though I never do enjoy the Atlantic
- > Ocean, I'll admit) but what I heard about survival times in the water. I
- > heard this on NPR a while back. My vague memory is that in the winter,
- > you could last only a few minutes, while in the summer it was a couple of
- > hours. This supports my memories of the Atlantic Ocean.:)
-
- Hmmmm. I'll try to remember that before jumping in for a swim around
- Sierra Leone or Trinidad. And Jamaica would no doubt be frightfully
- cold. But I guess it would be ok in the South Atlantic, so the South
- Shetland Islands would be ok...
- --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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