You're right, it's not rocket science. It's human physiology.
The point is that the water temperature very likely did contribute to the man's death. To argue that it didn't is absurd.
Are there really currents in the bay?
Not to get all semantic, but I'll agree that not being prepared for swimming in water that temperature did possibly contribute to this man's death... so... you still have a load of tri deaths that you can't possibly attribute to water temps:
www.nytimes.com/.../swimmers-death-casts-shadow-on-ironman-triathlon.htmlwww.nytimes.com/.../man-dies-during-new-york-city-triathlon.html
and this from USAT:
The five-member Medical Review Panel, consisting of three physicians and two race directors, reviewed data from 2003 through 2011 to identify patterns and possible strategies for preventing deaths in triathlon. During that time, 43 athlete fatalities were recorded during a race event, of which 5 were considered “traumatic,” caused by injuries from a cycling crash; of the remaining 38 deaths, 30 occurred during the swim, three took place during the bike, three during the run and two after the completion of the race.
A 2010 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association stated triathlons are twice as deadly as marathons. With an overall rate of one death per 76,000 participants, the USAT study deemed triathlon’s fatality rate to be similar fatality rate to United States marathons (1 in 75,000).
Perhaps they should relocate the "Escape From Alcatraz" triathlon to Cancun?
You're right, it's not rocket science. It's human physiology.
The point is that the water temperature very likely did contribute to the man's death. To argue that it didn't is absurd.
Are there really currents in the bay?
Not to get all semantic, but I'll agree that not being prepared for swimming in water that temperature did possibly contribute to this man's death... so... you still have a load of tri deaths that you can't possibly attribute to water temps:
www.nytimes.com/.../swimmers-death-casts-shadow-on-ironman-triathlon.htmlwww.nytimes.com/.../man-dies-during-new-york-city-triathlon.html
and this from USAT:
The five-member Medical Review Panel, consisting of three physicians and two race directors, reviewed data from 2003 through 2011 to identify patterns and possible strategies for preventing deaths in triathlon. During that time, 43 athlete fatalities were recorded during a race event, of which 5 were considered “traumatic,” caused by injuries from a cycling crash; of the remaining 38 deaths, 30 occurred during the swim, three took place during the bike, three during the run and two after the completion of the race.
A 2010 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association stated triathlons are twice as deadly as marathons. With an overall rate of one death per 76,000 participants, the USAT study deemed triathlon’s fatality rate to be similar fatality rate to United States marathons (1 in 75,000).
Perhaps they should relocate the "Escape From Alcatraz" triathlon to Cancun?
