This could very well have been one of the chairs thrown overboard by Joughin. Article content A deck chair from the Titanic, recovered floating at the disaster site. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. However, Canadian hypothermia expert Gordon Giesbrecht figures that in the -2 C temperature of the North Atlantic, the water was cold enough to quickly tighten Joughin’s blood vessels and cancel out any effect of the alcohol. In a survival situation, having all that warm blood away from the vital organs means that the drinker is at greater risk of hypothermia. The warming sensation of a glass of brandy (and the telltale red cheeks that sometimes results) is caused by vasodilation, the phenomenon of warm blood rushing to the surface of the skin. To be sure, a good rule of thumb is that a drunk man will usually freeze to death faster than a sober man. And, according to the British Titanic inquiry, it was because the 33-year-old Englishman had the presence of mind to greet history’s greatest maritime disaster by getting smashed. It was an almost physiologically impossible feat of survival. Article content Contemporary etching of the British Titanic inquiry. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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