Former NYPD sergeant dies while surfing in frigid Long Island water

NBC New York ^ | 1/21/25 | AP

[Puppage]

Former NYPD sergeant dies while surfing in frigid Long Island water.

[Puppage]

I guess he won’t be bringing the potato salad to the MENSA picnic.

[xp38]

If everybody had an ocean...

[FlingWingFlyer]

Which means the Cola bears up on the North Pole should be thriving again. Climate Crisis is over. We’re back to, “if you don’t like the weather, wait 15 minutes.”

[left that other site]

I guess he won’t be bringing the potato salad to the MENSA picnic.

I love that! Is that yours? Can I borrow that sometime? :-)

[Right Brother]

Surfin’ DOA.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Strange time to surf 🏄‍♂️…

[rdcbn1]

Surfers are strange dudes.

[dfwgator]

[dfwgator]

If everybody had a 12 gauge
With a sufboard too
You see ‘em shootin and surfin’
From here to Malibu

[Army Air Corps]

Skeet Surfin’!

[dfwgator]

Greatest movie, ever!

[Beowulf9]

Speaking of Gilgo what’s up with Heuermann?

He aint surfin’ no mo.

[PGR88]

In my first job, I had a boss who loved water-skiing

He would be out on Lake Michigan in March or April, as soon as there was no ice in his path.

He had some kind of high-grade, insulated military wetsuit.

Seemed overzealous to me, but I suppose there’s worse hobbies to have....

[FreeReign]

Strange time to surf

They wear wet suits. They surf all winter.

The article says that he drowned.

[GaltAdonis]

What?
You think that surfing in sub-zero degree weather is strange - or something? :-0

/sarc

[jerod]

In the air, hypothermia can develop in as little as five minutes in temperatures of minus -50°F/-45.5°C in people who are not dressed properly and have exposed skin. At -30°F/-34.4°C, hypothermia can occur in about 10 minutes. Death can occur in under an hour in extremely cold conditions.

People die of hypothermia faster in water than in air, because water has a high thermal conductivity that can cool a person at least 24-times faster than air.

A person who is immersed in near-freezing water at temperatures of 32.5°F/0.3°C will have symptoms of mild hypothermia in under 2 minutes and will be unconscious in less than 15 minutes, with an expected survival time of 15 to 45 minutes. -- E Medicine Heath

[desertsolitaire]

[Army Air Corps]

“She whose bosoms defy gravity.”

[PLMerite]

It takes a string of really poor decisions to get to that headline.

[Gay State Conservative]

Isn’t Gilgo Beach where that serial killer killed all those hookers?