And at the bottom of this report is this tidbit-—
“””The incident comes two weeks after two tourists died on another Antarctic cruise. The two men, aged 76 and 80, had left the World Explorer ship for an excursion on an inflatable zodiac boat which overturned near the shore. — AFP”””
“Near the shore” .... wonder how near. Dead/gone within a few minutes in the frigid water. What a terrible way to go.
You go out on cold water, your life is at risk. On a whale watching cruise in the St Lawrence, all passengers were warned that if you fell overboard, you would be hypothermic by the time the vessel turned around to retrieve you and dead before it got to your body. The human brain likes a warm body.