re: #127 steve_davis

okay. i remembered the part about the alcohol, but I’d forgotten that basically, after the ship had broken in half and the front end started going down, he climbed over the rail on the front of the ship and rode that sucker down “like an elevator” until the ship went under, at which point, he was able to keep his head out of the water and swim about for the better part of two hours WITHOUT GETTING HYPOTERMIA or having his legs destroyed from the cold. I’m assuming that he imbibed so much alcohol of sufficient proof that it basically acted as anti-freeze.

Alcohol doesn’t actually work like that. More likely he was one of those people genetically poorly endowed with cryoglobulins and otherwise blessed to have good function even in extreme cold.