when you are in the ice cold water and life begins to leave you,you don't have the strength to raise your arms ,you feel paralyzed and life is a flip of a coin, you would trade anything you have for a float suit,i have been there, your chest feels like it has a ratchet strap around it i don't care how good you are or how healthy you are you will lose you ability quickly to function,you get so weak you are afraid to let you legs and feet go down again because you feel you cannot raise them up, i looked up and said you dumb a you did it now and actually could find humor even in that state, breathing becomes so shallow you cannot get enough oxygen to run your system, the strength to get back up is impossible,i survived , will you?!!!! , a man here i fished and hunted with for most of my life who couldn't drown he was a sportsman done it all, drowned in my lake here five years ago,a man i new retired and was just elated that he could fish and hunt the rest of his life and no pressure just fish , two weeks later went through and is now gone for good,another man i new went through it took 2 hours to rescue him, even though he survived the trauma to his body caused his death two years later.fishing friends i love you all and please if at all possible get the floating suits,my story is true i was on the line of life or death not having a clue as to my outcome i was leaning toward death. family kids dosent just hurt you others suffer forever.never will i explore on the ice without a float suit.now a little humor,i looked up at the sky and said god why why me , what have i done to deserve this, his reply i dont know tom something about you just pisses me off.
totally new to this and hope to share and learn with all of you, i love to fish and love the outdoors period grew up that way.
tom Hampton Michigan
