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209.237.238.172 crawl22-public.alexa.com ia_archiver Lifeguard in Nylon Anorak This page will soon have some exciting content about Lifesaving, with training syllabus, tips and fun ideas.

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  1. Water Rescue
  2. Life Support
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Surf Rescue

Hypothermia

Clothes reduce water flow over the skin and hence cooling (ask any survival instructor). Fur on animals works in the same way, but also by trapping an insulating layer of air (ask any polar bear...). So really good fur is like a drysuit.

Even ignoring the models physics gives us, the whole point with fur has often been missed and stares us in the face. The greater diversity of aquatic mammals HAVE fur. Only the truly marine mammals, the whales, dolphins and sirenians, are hairless. The groups which come ashore to pup or spend any time at all on land have fur.

Why should we be any different? We have to look beyond merely being partially aquatic to explain hairlessness.