About midway down the page there are some video links from the discovery channel about cold water/weather survival techniques from Dr. Gordon Giesbrecht of Canada.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/physed/research/people/giesbrecht.shtml
You Can Find A Fuller Discussion
on this in a recent thread, I think, on the “gasp reflex.”
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Yep, amazing how I missed this thread
from just a few days ago. I did a search but used the wrong term apparently.
http://www.paddling.net/message/showThread.html?fid=advice&tid=280797