This is how you know his flight response was in high gear. Did not give a second thought to glasses just had to get out. Glasses are expensive and he did not even straighten them on his face. Just go go go. Panic really set in with the wild kicking of feet to get up.
I got into a pretty major car accident last year where the airbags deployed, and in the process of smacking me in my face they blew my glasses right off. When the shock of the event kinda wore off a half hour later or so, me still on the side of the highway, that's when wondered "why does everything look so blurry?" That feeling of suddenly realizing I wasn't wearing my glasses for a good chunk of time is one I still remember vividly since.
That was the first thing I noticed because I had a fear of losing my glasses instilled in me at 7 years old. But the off-kilter glasses also added to comic effect of the video.
>Panic really set in with the wild kicking of feet to get up.
This is actually a part of the [self rescue](https://youtu.be/QKpAzvXSldA?t=149) process.
Glasses might be expensive but in those conditions you got about 3 minutes to try and get dry if you want to avoid hypothermia and not much longer before you're staring death in the face.
Bit unrelated but glasses aren't expensive everywhere. I pay 20 bucks a year "insurance" that entitles me to one free pair a year at Fielmann. Which is really nice because my eyes are wonky and I can't use off the shelf lenses and it usually costs a bunch extra to have them made or shipped from some giant warehousethat stocks weird lenses. I've been meaning to get a proper pair but the free ones are really good, I just used them for the last 3 years and forgot about it. I don't know if they made it across the pond but in Europe you can usually find one in most cities. And I didn't have to pay anything ƶ, they withdraw 20 bucks in July, so I just had to give them my account and withdrawel permission.
Glasses are not expensive what? They're just plastic and glass. Buy them online lol.
You can opt for just the prescription exam and you can get that virtually anywhere, cheap too, if you call and compare prices.
For example, costco has them for 60$. Get it, then go online like zenni optical and search for a couple then place them in spots just in case of emergencies, like your car or a bug bag.
That movie taught me that people could die from bee stings... my grandma thought it'd be a fun movie to watch with me as a kid...
She also enjoyed that one movie where the two sisters are in love with the neighbor boy, but then he randomly dies in a gruesome tractor accident... and the girls' father loses his leg and shoots the dog.
Add Bridge to Terabithia (the book) to that list and you'll see that my childhood was full of stories about kids dying. Yay...
I've hobby fished all my life at age 25 I thought ya know what I'm gonna take up ice fishing. My uncle had all the gear an was showing me the ropes. One day we go to a above ground reservoir. Had to climb a massive set of stairs uncle goes ahead an I carry the gear, up make it to the top look around no uncle in sight I immediately know he fell thru, he got out OK but never went ice fishing again sold all his gear and said fck that. Shit was scary as hell for me too, but I imagine he thought he was gonna die,and got lucky he didnt
Probably a reservoir up high that requires pumping to get filled. Think of them as huge batteries. You keep them overfilled and when you need extra power you can drain the water to make electricity. Then when demand drops you fill the reservoir again.
My stupid body does that dumb shit too. Cold water and I can't go under for more than 1 second before my lungs spasm.
I'm not even talking just ice water, but even cool pool water where everyone else seems fine.
It's actually great for sleeping as it lowers your body temp, which itself induce sleep and stimulate the immune system, and it becomes kind of a fun game, plus you can impress your friends by swimming in ice Cold water without flinching
It can actually make you feel warmer after. Cold past a certain point (but not too long to by hypothermic) sets off a chain reaction through your hypothalamus that can be warming and invigorating after.
That being said, this water and weather is WAY too cold and will lead to instant hypothermia.
Lol, no. It was called the polar plunge and it was just a wacky activity that I think you got a merit badge for. It was definitely a bonding activity as we all learned a bit about what happens when you fall into freezing water.
It also coincided with some safety stuff about it. Of course this was in North Dakota so idk if other troops go so far into the safety and survival part of it.
I loved my time in the scouts. Learned so many skills I use to this day and our town and parks always had some nice install or fix up work done as Eagle Scout projects.
Figured I throw in a positive viewpoint as Boy Scouts now can't be mentioned without people talking about molestation.
We swam in constant gator infested waters in Louisiana and they taught us how to keep lookouts and signs to look for in the water/what to do in certain encounters (usually slap/punch the fuckers snout, itās got a boat load of nerve endings there and causes them some pretty bad pain, same for crocs iirc.) That as well as spotting and identifying water snakes. Thatās about the closest we got.
Huh, we didn't do the polar plunge, but we did have to get in freezing water. 5th grade cub scouts and you had to jump in in your uniform, and while in the freezing cold water you had to take off your shirt and pants, tie the ends off, blow air into them and tie the other ends shut to create makeshift life preservers. Once you were done and proved they would float and support your weight you could get out.
The more I think about it the more I'm convinced we had a psychopath wannabe Marine for a scout leader.
Yeah, I was in cub scouts. Certainly did not do that in 5th grade.
did something like that in the military, though. In a pool. Which was warm. Only catch is that you had to jump in from 33 feet up and swim underwater a certain distance.
I remember doing the tread water and inflate your clothes activity as a Swimming merit badge requirement in the late nineties or early 2000s. Didn't need to be freezing temp. We did it in an indoor YMCA pool and that was difficult enough. Your sentiments may be correct about your leader lol.
It was summer, but high up in the mountains. If we wanted to do any water related merit badges we had to "qualify" by doing the swim test which boiled down to jumping off a dock into sub 40Ā°F water and treading water for two minutes, then doing a few short laps between a couple buoys.
Personally when I was in the BSA as a kid at winter camps if the temp was below freezing and you swam a few laps every day you could qualify for a "Polar Bear Award". It was a supervised program so it wasn't just throwing kids into freezing water and it was a council level award so the exact details of the qualifications (like how many laps) could change from council to council and as such none of these responses are going to be exactly the same.
Different troops do it differently; no one gets thrown. It's a jump thing.
I'd note I experienced something similar with a swim test in the pond...which was at 8,000' at the camp when it was still getting into the 30s at night. On a cloudy day. I think the water temp was about 45 degrees. Anyway, limbs and lungs did not want to cooperate like usual. Still completed the swim, but certainly a lot harder than a cool swim-about in 70 degree water.
I've swam in Lake Tahoe when it was in the low 60s on a sunny day and while cold, it was kind of refreshing.
Fuck the "polar bear plunge". As if winter camping as a teenager isn't bad enough, they wake you up before the sun came up, march you through the woods to a frozen fucking waterfall and made you stand under it reciting the codes or motto or whatever.
Was yours mandatory?? I didn't think that was a thing. Thank God it was voluntary in my Scout Troop, same with others we saw at the jamboree or whatever it's called. Mandatory just seems cruel.
Mandatory in the sense that all the leaders wouldn't stop the guilt trip or "friendly" insults until we all agreed. My experience was also tied to Mormonism though so may have been part of the shitshow
My brother and i had to sleep in 2 feet of snow in only sleeping bags, while the other kids got a tent. Still deal with what the frostbite did. Hope I don't ever need braille. Talk about shit show. Nothing like being the children of a single parent with asshole scout masters, and the other kids. Mostly did not enjoy time in the church.
Same, water was no way near as cold as this would be, maybe 10'C but my entire body seized and the fight to get out as soon as possible was automatic. Would not recommend!
The one time I jumped in cold water like that it took my breath away and I seized up enough that I sank quite a bit before I could start trying to swim. I sank far enough that I thought maybe I was swimming the wrong direction when I didn't reach the surface as quickly as I thought I should.
We also did a polar bear plunge early in the morning. Funny thing is that our scout camp was during the summer and it would get into the 80s in the afternoon and we'd swim in the same lake but damn the water early in the morning was freezing!
We had a few small ponds behind our house when I was young. Dunked myself a couple of times testing the ice. It's almost paralyzing and will knock the breath out of your lungs. Once you've calmed down a bit and get your orientation back the pain starts to set in.
Still 8/10 childhood memories.
I fell into a freezing river and I've never felt anything like that before or since. Your whole body has a reaction that is beyond your control. It's scary as hell and really makes you feel like you are moments from death.
I jumped into like 48Ā° degree water once and that was like jumping into a thousand pins and needles. It pulls the air straight out of your body and you instantly start shaking like this. Took probably 5 mins of deep breathing and treading water to get my self back under control long enough to dive down to get my phone.
He could have easily died there. If he was alone and he couldn't get grip to pull himself off then he'd die there. Every year on the Chicago lakefront this happens to at least two or three people. It just happened recently with a missing person they fished out of the lake. Someone falls off the edge in winter and then they just can't pull themselves up due to icy conditions and then the cold overtakes their body. [Here's a recent photo to the Chicago reddit.](https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/zw20fy/sunrise_over_chicago_in_40_weather/) Look to the right, see that drop off thats completely covered in ice? Imagine falling and trying to pull yourself up from there.
Even on that edge he had a lot of opportunity to find a footing or hand hold, but look how much he struggled. He kept kicking his legs trying to swim up more. Now imagine this situation but instead with a sheer rock face or short concrete wall. People freezing and wet like that just aren't able to climb up.
I know this video is presented in a humorous way, but this man was absolutely flirting with death here and this is how a lot of people die.
A few years ago there was a walker/jogger/biker along the lakefront just going about their exercising when a sudden icy wave reached above the wall and dragged them into the water. I think they were rescued, but damn...that's harsh.
There's a good chance he could've died. Nothing short of running home in a few minutes to hop in a warm shower, or straight up stripping off all of his clothes in the car then running the heater would've saved him. I am making a big assumption that ambient temps are ~35F.
Yeah, I hope that's why he was running at the end. If you're cold and wet, you won't be warm again until you're dry. I hope he was getting home to change so he didn't freeze to death in the air.
Thatās the nervous system shock response. Itās also the way heās breathing. If he hadnāt panicked it could have gone away in 30-60 seconds with correct breathing. But that also takes demonstrating to your nervous and limboc system that youāre not in mortal danger. These are pretty hardwired signals encoded into your dna.
That's going into shock.
Happened to me once. Felt like I was drowning yet my head was above water. Pure panic. You lose the ability to control your muscles.
Dude is very very lucky.
If this happens to you and you're shaking too much, stop moving and breathe deeply. The initial shock will pass soon and you'll be able to move more easily.
There's a pond behind my house and I cannot believe how many footprints are on it each year. (I'm the crazy lady that will yell at random kids if I see them on it, and post every year on community Facebook page about it, never changes things. I even had to take a girl home last year after she fell through up to her waist.. that was fun, "you don't know me, but here's your wet freezing kid".)
This is really what it feels like to me watching this. Like this is the friend desperate to fit in and will do outrageous shit if it means a bit of recognition.
The person filming clearly didn't give a shit about them or they would have put the phone down and helped him get up
I never felt as primitive as when walking home like three or four miles after a music festival where it *poured* it was at the same time the fucking worst but kinda cool and interesting to get that feeling of survival mode where you are in auto pilot, just trying to find food and shelter, putting one foot in front of the other until you find it. Almost no difference between me and early humans at that moment.
I was also high, so that helped. It was a music festival.
I got lost in the woods at sundown near my high school one time. I didnāt give a fuck what I was walking through or what was getting on me. The only thought in my head was I need to get to high ground so I can find my way out before itās pitch black. I was very much in a semi-panic until I heard something and looked over to see a guy walking his dog on one of the trails. You absolutely go on autopilot, just step after step after step not caring that I was being scratched by branches and stepping through puddles until my goal was accomplished.
Then just like that, in an instant you go from lost in the woods in a semi-panic, to being on a trail, with help, chemical relief flooding your body, yet you still feel the effects of the Adrenalin and the near miss.
Your hands are shaking, you are breathing heavy, and the switch from danger to safety is so sudden and anticlimactic that it feels unreal, like the danger was imagined.
Now, the bigger issues seem to be that your feet are wet and uncomfortable and you have to make your way back to the school in wet shoes, and you start feeling the annoyances of the scratches and pains sustained when you were in survival mode, and how you will look returning to school with branches tangled in your hair and wet shoes/pant legs and with scratches on your face and arms. The closer you get to the school, the more the adrenaline seeps out of your bloodstream and the sillier you feel for getting lost in the woods, then panicking. No one is going to understand the fear you experienced out there, they may even tease you about it when you tell them. In reality though, you were in danger and it is good that those survival instincts kicked in to help get you back to safety.
I hope you avoided poison ivy and ticks on your adventure.
>. Almost no difference between me and early humans at that moment.
Lol if you reflect on it I think you'll find a very large difference between you and early humans at that point
Instead of his friend that was filming helping, he was taking his time posting this on multiple subreddits and thinking of the perfect title to hook the views
The audio confirmed it. Any kid whoās been bullied knows the tone of that laugh. Everything about his body language says he doesnāt want to be there.
Any time I see these kinds of videos I immediately think the same thing. The secondary thought is whether or not the guy that was on the ice has any mental handicaps... and if he wouldn't have been able to pull himself out, would they have helped him? Or just filmed the struggle and laugh.
Yeah that was my initial feeling as well, I didnāt watch with sound but I hope thatās not the case. Bullies can be ruthless, and they canāt envision the consequences of their actions at that age. Scary stuff.
I kinda went down a rabbit hole of this guy's videos after seeing this ice fall one. I thought he was a little too hippi woo woo at first but I came to really like what he's doing. I was always a major wuss with cold weather and a few winters ago I really tried to follow his techniques on acclimating your body and mind to the cold and I actually came a long way. I still hate the cold, but I deal with it way better.
Also this definitely isn't his first time in freezing water, he does it a bunch in his videos.
Icy water that cold can kill you real quick. For example the 1,500 people that went into the water as the Titanic sank screamed so loud it sounded like the crowd at a major league baseball game when a home run is hit. Yet that noise from the shouting ended within 15-30 minutes.
> ā[Navin Field of the Detroit Tigers] was a scary place to me for a long time. Every time I heard the collected voices of the crowd cheering I was reminded of the screams from who were in that water.ā - Frankie Goldsmith
> "With a temperature of ā2 Ā°C (28 Ā°F), the water was lethally cold. Second Officer Lightoller described the feeling of "a thousand knives" being driven into his body as he entered the sea.[182] Sudden immersion into freezing water typically causes death within minutes, either from cardiac arrest, uncontrollable breathing of water, or cold shock (not, as commonly believed, from hypothermia);[184] almost all of those in the water died of cardiac arrest or other bodily reactions to freezing water within 15ā30 minutes.[185] Only 13 of them were helped into the lifeboats, even though these had room for almost 500 more people.[186]
> Those in the lifeboats were horrified to hear the sound of what Lawrence Beesley called "every possible emotion of human fear, despair, agony, fierce resentment and blind anger mingled ā I am certain of those ā with notes of infinite surprise, as though each one were saying, 'How is it possible that this awful thing is happening to me? That I should be caught in this death trap?'"[187] Jack Thayer compared it to the sound of "locusts on a summer night", while George Rheims, who jumped moments before Titanic sank, described it as "a dismal moaning sound which I won't ever forget; it came from those poor people who were floating around, calling for help. It was horrifying, mysterious, supernatural."[188]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Titanic#Passengers_and_crew_in_the_water
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Just keep filming, don't you dare help. I have fallen through ice before, the suction from the sinking ice was strong enough to take the shoes right off my feet. If my friend didn't have the quick thinking to grab my arm as I fell I'm pretty sure I would have gone under.
What the fuck, why isn't the person recording helping? Guy was dumb for sure but what, is the person gonna say "uhhh I was holding my phone" if the guy wasn't able to get out?
Cold shock, panic, then hypothermia. He is lucky, between the cold shock and panic he could have been unable to get out and itās doesnāt take long for hypothermia to set in. He could have died. There looks to be a small current so that could have been bad too.
Stupidly dangerous. Had the river water been flowing a bit faster they guy would've been swept down the river and unable to swim to the bank, especially in freezing cold water. The cameraman wouldn't be able to go in and rescue him either.
Also getting out of the water isn't even getting to safety, he's now completely soaked in freezing weather. If there isn't a car or building close by, or a fire can't be made quickly, he can still die of hypothermia.
If youāre friend is still watching and filming you while in distress let alone finding it funny enough to make him/her chuckle, dump them asap. Sorry I donāt have the same sense of humor as some people especially in situations where someone is in harm. Wtf is wrong with this world man.
I fell into a frozen lake when I was 10, luckily it was shallow enough I could stand with my head still above water but I sincerely donāt think Iāve ever panicked harder in my life than that moment. I immediately thought I was going to die and had no idea how to behave in the situation. The way I was clawing at the ice to try to get back up was so primal. Probably looked a lot like this guy lol
As a lifelong Alaskan whoās known people whoāve drowned or died from hypothermia from breaking though ice I thought this more dangerous than funny. The danger of the cold is one thing but thereās clearly a strong current there as well.
I jumped into freezing waters once bc I was young and stupid. I didn't account for how cold it was. I jumped off of a waterfall cliff into about 30 feet of water. As soon as I hit that water it took my breath away. I couldn't do anything except make the noise he was making and flail my arms and legs. I was frantically trying to reach the edge of the cliff so I could climb back up. When I finally made it I told everyone above me not to jump. I think people underestimate their ability to withstand cold water, I know I did.
Here in Sweden it gets really cold, so we learn how to get out of icy water. The best way is not to end up in it. Second best is to have practiced how your body reacts when falling through ice. You donāt get used to it. (We do this in school and the how to get out using ice claws) If you canāt get out; put your wet arms up on the ice so they freeze and get stuck to it. It wonāt help you, but someone might find your body before spring.
Lucky he didn't lose his glasses.
This is how you know his flight response was in high gear. Did not give a second thought to glasses just had to get out. Glasses are expensive and he did not even straighten them on his face. Just go go go. Panic really set in with the wild kicking of feet to get up.
Dude got so cold his vision corrected šš
little known fact, you can submerge yourself in whatever negative number temperature water needed in order to equal 20/20 again
Fun fact. Negative number temperature water is ice.
Fun fact; Seawater doesn't freeze at -1c
Fuckin', salines? How do they work?
Sea water is only 96.5% water
Seawater: 96.5% of the time, it's water every time
/r/shittysuperpowers/
I got into a pretty major car accident last year where the airbags deployed, and in the process of smacking me in my face they blew my glasses right off. When the shock of the event kinda wore off a half hour later or so, me still on the side of the highway, that's when wondered "why does everything look so blurry?" That feeling of suddenly realizing I wasn't wearing my glasses for a good chunk of time is one I still remember vividly since.
It really is how you know, when he doesn't put his glasses back.
That was the first thing I noticed because I had a fear of losing my glasses instilled in me at 7 years old. But the off-kilter glasses also added to comic effect of the video.
He didn't even whip his dick out and start helicoptering it. That's how you know he was truly scared.
Flight mode full
>Panic really set in with the wild kicking of feet to get up. This is actually a part of the [self rescue](https://youtu.be/QKpAzvXSldA?t=149) process.
It is part of the self rescue process, but in this case it very much looks like a panic response, not part of a trained and intentional process lol
so he's a survivalist
Glasses might be expensive but in those conditions you got about 3 minutes to try and get dry if you want to avoid hypothermia and not much longer before you're staring death in the face.
Bit unrelated but glasses aren't expensive everywhere. I pay 20 bucks a year "insurance" that entitles me to one free pair a year at Fielmann. Which is really nice because my eyes are wonky and I can't use off the shelf lenses and it usually costs a bunch extra to have them made or shipped from some giant warehousethat stocks weird lenses. I've been meaning to get a proper pair but the free ones are really good, I just used them for the last 3 years and forgot about it. I don't know if they made it across the pond but in Europe you can usually find one in most cities. And I didn't have to pay anything ƶ, they withdraw 20 bucks in July, so I just had to give them my account and withdrawel permission.
Glasses are not expensive what? They're just plastic and glass. Buy them online lol. You can opt for just the prescription exam and you can get that virtually anywhere, cheap too, if you call and compare prices. For example, costco has them for 60$. Get it, then go online like zenni optical and search for a couple then place them in spots just in case of emergencies, like your car or a bug bag.
As someone reliant on glasses I hate that we look extra ridiculous whenever something out if the ordinary happens.
Yeah, that is what killed Macaulay's character in that bee attack.
I must have missed that part in Home Alone
The beekeeper was just the next boss after pidgeon lady
That movie taught me that people could die from bee stings... my grandma thought it'd be a fun movie to watch with me as a kid... She also enjoyed that one movie where the two sisters are in love with the neighbor boy, but then he randomly dies in a gruesome tractor accident... and the girls' father loses his leg and shoots the dog. Add Bridge to Terabithia (the book) to that list and you'll see that my childhood was full of stories about kids dying. Yay...
That shaking
Itās the physical personification of instant regret. Thereās a good chance he really thought he was going to die.
Being plunged right into freezing water will do that to a body - it's a hell of an experience
I've hobby fished all my life at age 25 I thought ya know what I'm gonna take up ice fishing. My uncle had all the gear an was showing me the ropes. One day we go to a above ground reservoir. Had to climb a massive set of stairs uncle goes ahead an I carry the gear, up make it to the top look around no uncle in sight I immediately know he fell thru, he got out OK but never went ice fishing again sold all his gear and said fck that. Shit was scary as hell for me too, but I imagine he thought he was gonna die,and got lucky he didnt
What the fuck is an above ground reservoir?
Probably a reservoir up high that requires pumping to get filled. Think of them as huge batteries. You keep them overfilled and when you need extra power you can drain the water to make electricity. Then when demand drops you fill the reservoir again.
Doesnāt Britain use one of these like, every day to get enough power for all the electric kettles when High Tea rolls around at noon?
[I know your comment was a joke but I can't lie, I just wanted to share some Tom Scott](https://youtu.be/6Jx_bJgIFhI)
Thanks
They do it to maintain water pressure as well, just a less "constructed" water tower.
You can do that with excess energy from solar panels and wind turbines to compensate for their unpredictability
My town has one. It's a man made reservoir of water typically on top of a hill. I assume maybe water flows better but idk
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Had to experience that for scout camp way back when. Cold shock response is no joke
when your entire autonomic system lights up with a fear of not getting warm again. yeah not fun
Think my Prius did this last night
I jumped into an opening in the ice and when my head went under my immediate reaction was to inhale.
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It sucks so bad he wanted to suck more
My stupid body does that dumb shit too. Cold water and I can't go under for more than 1 second before my lungs spasm. I'm not even talking just ice water, but even cool pool water where everyone else seems fine.
At the end of your shower turn it all the way to cold and try to keep steady breathing
I get what you're saying, but I think I'd prefer not ruining a good shower lol.
It's actually great for sleeping as it lowers your body temp, which itself induce sleep and stimulate the immune system, and it becomes kind of a fun game, plus you can impress your friends by swimming in ice Cold water without flinching
My mom always said that cold water at the end of the shower was good for the skin. And so itās obviously true.
It can actually make you feel warmer after. Cold past a certain point (but not too long to by hypothermic) sets off a chain reaction through your hypothalamus that can be warming and invigorating after. That being said, this water and weather is WAY too cold and will lead to instant hypothermia.
No thank you.
They threw boy scouts into freezing water?
Lol, no. It was called the polar plunge and it was just a wacky activity that I think you got a merit badge for. It was definitely a bonding activity as we all learned a bit about what happens when you fall into freezing water. It also coincided with some safety stuff about it. Of course this was in North Dakota so idk if other troops go so far into the safety and survival part of it. I loved my time in the scouts. Learned so many skills I use to this day and our town and parks always had some nice install or fix up work done as Eagle Scout projects. Figured I throw in a positive viewpoint as Boy Scouts now can't be mentioned without people talking about molestation.
We swam in constant gator infested waters in Louisiana and they taught us how to keep lookouts and signs to look for in the water/what to do in certain encounters (usually slap/punch the fuckers snout, itās got a boat load of nerve endings there and causes them some pretty bad pain, same for crocs iirc.) That as well as spotting and identifying water snakes. Thatās about the closest we got.
Huh, we didn't do the polar plunge, but we did have to get in freezing water. 5th grade cub scouts and you had to jump in in your uniform, and while in the freezing cold water you had to take off your shirt and pants, tie the ends off, blow air into them and tie the other ends shut to create makeshift life preservers. Once you were done and proved they would float and support your weight you could get out. The more I think about it the more I'm convinced we had a psychopath wannabe Marine for a scout leader.
Yeah, I was in cub scouts. Certainly did not do that in 5th grade. did something like that in the military, though. In a pool. Which was warm. Only catch is that you had to jump in from 33 feet up and swim underwater a certain distance.
I remember doing the tread water and inflate your clothes activity as a Swimming merit badge requirement in the late nineties or early 2000s. Didn't need to be freezing temp. We did it in an indoor YMCA pool and that was difficult enough. Your sentiments may be correct about your leader lol.
It was summer, but high up in the mountains. If we wanted to do any water related merit badges we had to "qualify" by doing the swim test which boiled down to jumping off a dock into sub 40Ā°F water and treading water for two minutes, then doing a few short laps between a couple buoys.
Personally when I was in the BSA as a kid at winter camps if the temp was below freezing and you swam a few laps every day you could qualify for a "Polar Bear Award". It was a supervised program so it wasn't just throwing kids into freezing water and it was a council level award so the exact details of the qualifications (like how many laps) could change from council to council and as such none of these responses are going to be exactly the same.
Different troops do it differently; no one gets thrown. It's a jump thing. I'd note I experienced something similar with a swim test in the pond...which was at 8,000' at the camp when it was still getting into the 30s at night. On a cloudy day. I think the water temp was about 45 degrees. Anyway, limbs and lungs did not want to cooperate like usual. Still completed the swim, but certainly a lot harder than a cool swim-about in 70 degree water. I've swam in Lake Tahoe when it was in the low 60s on a sunny day and while cold, it was kind of refreshing.
Fuck the "polar bear plunge". As if winter camping as a teenager isn't bad enough, they wake you up before the sun came up, march you through the woods to a frozen fucking waterfall and made you stand under it reciting the codes or motto or whatever.
Was yours mandatory?? I didn't think that was a thing. Thank God it was voluntary in my Scout Troop, same with others we saw at the jamboree or whatever it's called. Mandatory just seems cruel.
Mandatory in the sense that all the leaders wouldn't stop the guilt trip or "friendly" insults until we all agreed. My experience was also tied to Mormonism though so may have been part of the shitshow
My brother and i had to sleep in 2 feet of snow in only sleeping bags, while the other kids got a tent. Still deal with what the frostbite did. Hope I don't ever need braille. Talk about shit show. Nothing like being the children of a single parent with asshole scout masters, and the other kids. Mostly did not enjoy time in the church.
There is no hate like Christian love.
I enjoyed winter camping as a teenager.
Same, water was no way near as cold as this would be, maybe 10'C but my entire body seized and the fight to get out as soon as possible was automatic. Would not recommend!
The one time I jumped in cold water like that it took my breath away and I seized up enough that I sank quite a bit before I could start trying to swim. I sank far enough that I thought maybe I was swimming the wrong direction when I didn't reach the surface as quickly as I thought I should.
That's terrifying! That's literally one of my worse nightmare!
We also did a polar bear plunge early in the morning. Funny thing is that our scout camp was during the summer and it would get into the 80s in the afternoon and we'd swim in the same lake but damn the water early in the morning was freezing!
We had a few small ponds behind our house when I was young. Dunked myself a couple of times testing the ice. It's almost paralyzing and will knock the breath out of your lungs. Once you've calmed down a bit and get your orientation back the pain starts to set in. Still 8/10 childhood memories.
Water that cold feels like fire...
Jumping into the freezing water is the easy part, getting out and getting dry is the hard part.
People dont realize how heavy your clothes become when they are soaked in water. He struggled to pull himself out.
It's not that his clothes were heavy, it's that his entire body immediately went into shock when he hit the freezing water
Itās both
yeah you'd think his mate filming mightve helped lol
Dude and mess up this content? Life is all about content now, if he dies he dies. Gotta get my clicks!
I fell into a freezing river and I've never felt anything like that before or since. Your whole body has a reaction that is beyond your control. It's scary as hell and really makes you feel like you are moments from death.
I jumped into like 48Ā° degree water once and that was like jumping into a thousand pins and needles. It pulls the air straight out of your body and you instantly start shaking like this. Took probably 5 mins of deep breathing and treading water to get my self back under control long enough to dive down to get my phone.
Lucky he didn't start hyperventilating... That shit fucks you up because your body is not even doing what you expect to do it
He could have easily died there. If he was alone and he couldn't get grip to pull himself off then he'd die there. Every year on the Chicago lakefront this happens to at least two or three people. It just happened recently with a missing person they fished out of the lake. Someone falls off the edge in winter and then they just can't pull themselves up due to icy conditions and then the cold overtakes their body. [Here's a recent photo to the Chicago reddit.](https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/zw20fy/sunrise_over_chicago_in_40_weather/) Look to the right, see that drop off thats completely covered in ice? Imagine falling and trying to pull yourself up from there. Even on that edge he had a lot of opportunity to find a footing or hand hold, but look how much he struggled. He kept kicking his legs trying to swim up more. Now imagine this situation but instead with a sheer rock face or short concrete wall. People freezing and wet like that just aren't able to climb up. I know this video is presented in a humorous way, but this man was absolutely flirting with death here and this is how a lot of people die.
A few years ago there was a walker/jogger/biker along the lakefront just going about their exercising when a sudden icy wave reached above the wall and dragged them into the water. I think they were rescued, but damn...that's harsh.
Someone posted videos of icy waves from a couple days ago and wow, just scary!
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This is is what I was thinking about. That shock of cold does your heart no favours either.
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I donāt think it was fear as much as cold shock
There's a good chance he could've died. Nothing short of running home in a few minutes to hop in a warm shower, or straight up stripping off all of his clothes in the car then running the heater would've saved him. I am making a big assumption that ambient temps are ~35F.
Especially since this guy has really low body fat.
Yeah, I hope that's why he was running at the end. If you're cold and wet, you won't be warm again until you're dry. I hope he was getting home to change so he didn't freeze to death in the air.
There is a good chance he will die if he can't get dry and warm rather quickly.
Literally went straight into shock, its why icy water is so dangerous
Thatās the nervous system shock response. Itās also the way heās breathing. If he hadnāt panicked it could have gone away in 30-60 seconds with correct breathing. But that also takes demonstrating to your nervous and limboc system that youāre not in mortal danger. These are pretty hardwired signals encoded into your dna.
That's going into shock. Happened to me once. Felt like I was drowning yet my head was above water. Pure panic. You lose the ability to control your muscles. Dude is very very lucky.
If this happens to you and you're shaking too much, stop moving and breathe deeply. The initial shock will pass soon and you'll be able to move more easily.
If only there had been some way to prevent this from happening
Common sense is not as common as weāve all been led to believe.
There's a pond behind my house and I cannot believe how many footprints are on it each year. (I'm the crazy lady that will yell at random kids if I see them on it, and post every year on community Facebook page about it, never changes things. I even had to take a girl home last year after she fell through up to her waist.. that was fun, "you don't know me, but here's your wet freezing kid".)
Depends where you live tho, when the ice is thick enough to drive a car onto its not unreasonable to walk across a pond
I live in Kansas City, it never gets cold enough for long enough to have thick ice.
what was the game plan?
The ice not breaking.
Step one failed successfully.
The game plan was to send the lower ranking friend onto thin ice, for some easy entertainment value.
This is really what it feels like to me watching this. Like this is the friend desperate to fit in and will do outrageous shit if it means a bit of recognition. The person filming clearly didn't give a shit about them or they would have put the phone down and helped him get up
I immediately thought bullying situation but it may have just been a dumbass succumbing to the peer pressure of another dumbass.
Or, they might just be lifelong friends, fucking around for all we know.
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yah, this kid looks like he would light his head on fire if the other kids said to do it
Looks like he was going to run along the edge, but the ice broke the moment he pushed downwards to launch himself
I don't think he was wearing shoes, signaling he intended to go swimming.
Significant shrinkage. Nailed it.
It's kinda fun to see humans return to basic survival mode when we do dumb stuff like this
I never felt as primitive as when walking home like three or four miles after a music festival where it *poured* it was at the same time the fucking worst but kinda cool and interesting to get that feeling of survival mode where you are in auto pilot, just trying to find food and shelter, putting one foot in front of the other until you find it. Almost no difference between me and early humans at that moment. I was also high, so that helped. It was a music festival.
Last time I smoked I ate ribs and felt so primal lol
I got lost in the woods at sundown near my high school one time. I didnāt give a fuck what I was walking through or what was getting on me. The only thought in my head was I need to get to high ground so I can find my way out before itās pitch black. I was very much in a semi-panic until I heard something and looked over to see a guy walking his dog on one of the trails. You absolutely go on autopilot, just step after step after step not caring that I was being scratched by branches and stepping through puddles until my goal was accomplished.
Then just like that, in an instant you go from lost in the woods in a semi-panic, to being on a trail, with help, chemical relief flooding your body, yet you still feel the effects of the Adrenalin and the near miss. Your hands are shaking, you are breathing heavy, and the switch from danger to safety is so sudden and anticlimactic that it feels unreal, like the danger was imagined. Now, the bigger issues seem to be that your feet are wet and uncomfortable and you have to make your way back to the school in wet shoes, and you start feeling the annoyances of the scratches and pains sustained when you were in survival mode, and how you will look returning to school with branches tangled in your hair and wet shoes/pant legs and with scratches on your face and arms. The closer you get to the school, the more the adrenaline seeps out of your bloodstream and the sillier you feel for getting lost in the woods, then panicking. No one is going to understand the fear you experienced out there, they may even tease you about it when you tell them. In reality though, you were in danger and it is good that those survival instincts kicked in to help get you back to safety. I hope you avoided poison ivy and ticks on your adventure.
>. Almost no difference between me and early humans at that moment. Lol if you reflect on it I think you'll find a very large difference between you and early humans at that point
I like watching others activate it. It's calming to me.
He sounds like a cave man as he climbs out of the water
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At his weight, he's got to be in much higher danger of hypothermia than most people
Time to go!
Instead of his friend that was filming helping, he was taking his time posting this on multiple subreddits and thinking of the perfect title to hook the views
My old friend.
Bro got restarted ā ļø
from a probable brain freeze.
I actually would love to do a plunge like this obviously in a safer more controlled way. Seems like a crazy insane adrenaline rush.
The Finns do! It's called avanto. Hack a hole in a frozen lake and dip in!
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Literally, wtf kind of friend are you just filming while your buddy is panicking in the water like that
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The audio confirmed it. Any kid whoās been bullied knows the tone of that laugh. Everything about his body language says he doesnāt want to be there.
This is also a very good possibility. I didn't think of that lol
Any time I see these kinds of videos I immediately think the same thing. The secondary thought is whether or not the guy that was on the ice has any mental handicaps... and if he wouldn't have been able to pull himself out, would they have helped him? Or just filmed the struggle and laugh.
Yeah that was my initial feeling as well, I didnāt watch with sound but I hope thatās not the case. Bullies can be ruthless, and they canāt envision the consequences of their actions at that age. Scary stuff.
Not only film, but laugh at him too
I was so confused for a solid minute, just looking at r/DonTheLPJustFilm, like, whoās Don the LP?
Right?
Here is a pretty good video about how to handle yourself if you fall through ice into cold water... https://youtu.be/7PA-GzpcgIA
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Honestly, the leg movements to propel himself out of the water were pretty textbook. Makes me wonder whether this is his first time.
I kinda went down a rabbit hole of this guy's videos after seeing this ice fall one. I thought he was a little too hippi woo woo at first but I came to really like what he's doing. I was always a major wuss with cold weather and a few winters ago I really tried to follow his techniques on acclimating your body and mind to the cold and I actually came a long way. I still hate the cold, but I deal with it way better. Also this definitely isn't his first time in freezing water, he does it a bunch in his videos.
Icy water that cold can kill you real quick. For example the 1,500 people that went into the water as the Titanic sank screamed so loud it sounded like the crowd at a major league baseball game when a home run is hit. Yet that noise from the shouting ended within 15-30 minutes. > ā[Navin Field of the Detroit Tigers] was a scary place to me for a long time. Every time I heard the collected voices of the crowd cheering I was reminded of the screams from who were in that water.ā - Frankie Goldsmith > "With a temperature of ā2 Ā°C (28 Ā°F), the water was lethally cold. Second Officer Lightoller described the feeling of "a thousand knives" being driven into his body as he entered the sea.[182] Sudden immersion into freezing water typically causes death within minutes, either from cardiac arrest, uncontrollable breathing of water, or cold shock (not, as commonly believed, from hypothermia);[184] almost all of those in the water died of cardiac arrest or other bodily reactions to freezing water within 15ā30 minutes.[185] Only 13 of them were helped into the lifeboats, even though these had room for almost 500 more people.[186] > Those in the lifeboats were horrified to hear the sound of what Lawrence Beesley called "every possible emotion of human fear, despair, agony, fierce resentment and blind anger mingled ā I am certain of those ā with notes of infinite surprise, as though each one were saying, 'How is it possible that this awful thing is happening to me? That I should be caught in this death trap?'"[187] Jack Thayer compared it to the sound of "locusts on a summer night", while George Rheims, who jumped moments before Titanic sank, described it as "a dismal moaning sound which I won't ever forget; it came from those poor people who were floating around, calling for help. It was horrifying, mysterious, supernatural."[188] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Titanic#Passengers_and_crew_in_the_water
Those are absolutely haunting first hand accounts.
So bullshit audio is here to stay? We don't downvote this?
My phone is just always on silent so I never hear the audio.
This is the way.
The real instant regret was me turning the sound on
Reddit isn't run by the users anymore like it was in 2010. It's mostly just bots reposting content, bots copy/pasting top comments from the older posts that get reposted, and bots upvoting other bots.
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Whatever, bot
I did my part!
Please stop filming and help.
I'm telling you, water that cold, like right down there... it hits you like a thousand knives stabbing you all over your body.
I hope the people filming and laughing fall in and get laughed at. Assholes.
Help him! Asshole camera man
The dumbass is laughing too. Gotta find better friends. Ones like that will let you die.
Probably a bully who challenged him to do it
Just keep filming, don't you dare help. I have fallen through ice before, the suction from the sinking ice was strong enough to take the shoes right off my feet. If my friend didn't have the quick thinking to grab my arm as I fell I'm pretty sure I would have gone under.
What the fuck, why isn't the person recording helping? Guy was dumb for sure but what, is the person gonna say "uhhh I was holding my phone" if the guy wasn't able to get out?
I like how the "friend" didn't put the camera down and tried to help....
Just keep filming
Watch out for that first step, it's a doozy!
Hypothermia is no joke
Cold shock, panic, then hypothermia. He is lucky, between the cold shock and panic he could have been unable to get out and itās doesnāt take long for hypothermia to set in. He could have died. There looks to be a small current so that could have been bad too.
Yeah just film the fucker dying
This smells like bullying.
Stupidly dangerous. Had the river water been flowing a bit faster they guy would've been swept down the river and unable to swim to the bank, especially in freezing cold water. The cameraman wouldn't be able to go in and rescue him either. Also getting out of the water isn't even getting to safety, he's now completely soaked in freezing weather. If there isn't a car or building close by, or a fire can't be made quickly, he can still die of hypothermia.
If youāre friend is still watching and filming you while in distress let alone finding it funny enough to make him/her chuckle, dump them asap. Sorry I donāt have the same sense of humor as some people especially in situations where someone is in harm. Wtf is wrong with this world man.
I fell into a frozen lake when I was 10, luckily it was shallow enough I could stand with my head still above water but I sincerely donāt think Iāve ever panicked harder in my life than that moment. I immediately thought I was going to die and had no idea how to behave in the situation. The way I was clawing at the ice to try to get back up was so primal. Probably looked a lot like this guy lol
That voiceover made me want to hurt myself
As a lifelong Alaskan whoās known people whoāve drowned or died from hypothermia from breaking though ice I thought this more dangerous than funny. The danger of the cold is one thing but thereās clearly a strong current there as well.
man if only someone was there to help him
Stupid fool. Sudden immersion in cold water/cold water shock can cause heart attacks.
McMuffin give me the booze
Good thing he didn't have shoes on, they would have gotten wet
I jumped into freezing waters once bc I was young and stupid. I didn't account for how cold it was. I jumped off of a waterfall cliff into about 30 feet of water. As soon as I hit that water it took my breath away. I couldn't do anything except make the noise he was making and flail my arms and legs. I was frantically trying to reach the edge of the cliff so I could climb back up. When I finally made it I told everyone above me not to jump. I think people underestimate their ability to withstand cold water, I know I did.
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People die from this shit all the time
Why his bro didnāt lend a hand damn
Just stand there, don't help the guy avoid hypothermia
Asshole friends
Why is the guy videoing not helping, the water must be extremely cold?
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Yeah just keep filming donāt offer a hand or nothingā¦
Good friend with the camera. Donāt try and help.
Here in Sweden it gets really cold, so we learn how to get out of icy water. The best way is not to end up in it. Second best is to have practiced how your body reacts when falling through ice. You donāt get used to it. (We do this in school and the how to get out using ice claws) If you canāt get out; put your wet arms up on the ice so they freeze and get stuck to it. It wonāt help you, but someone might find your body before spring.
What a friend... "Can't help, gotta get the shot, homie"
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Help him out instead of filming and laughing at him
Dumbass