Professor Gordon Geisbrecht, Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management
VIDEO: How to survive in cold water
Stay off the melting ice, but if you do venture out, Gordon Geisbrecht, a professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, has developed Cold Water Bootcamp to help inform people of the dangers of cold water immersion, and more importantly , how to survive it. Visit the site and learn about his 1-10-1 paradigm.
He supplies a lot of lessons in this video he made in 2001. The Winnipeg Fire and Paradmedic Service, the Winnipeg Police and the U of M held a water rescue practice at Pan Am Water Ski Park and filmed an instructional video:
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