Originally Posted by
Kemble Pitts
Not sure where to find it but David Joyce (LAA Gloucester Strut, Europe builder/pilot and retired doctor) did an extremely well considered and researched report on ditching and survivability about five years ago. It was published in one of the 'mags', can't recall which.
The key point is that it rather debunked the conventional wisdom that 'you'll be dead in minutes', and gave a more optimistic view on it.
I've been sea survival trained and current for around half the last 28 years, and before that was a canoeing instructor and a lifeguard in my teens, so entirely on board with that. I was very much here looking for some free material I could use to deliver something to a club group TBH, else I'll have to create my own.
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