Thread: Man rescued from Ureweras

Originally Posted by Carlsen Highway

And this is where modern technology causes natural selection to stagnate. This guy is just going to go out and do it again.
He could have just stayed out of the river. Three times. It's because he has a PLB, he feels safe enough to go and do stupid things.
After using it one time you should have the damn thing taken off you.

It might be because you are in a constant deluded state CH, and thinking not-normal to you is normal. But for us normal people it doesn't take too much exhaustion and loss of body heat to start to think not-normal. PLB or not, once exhausted and slightly hypothermic this chap was likely to make poor decisions.

As an aside, I understand that the term hyperthermia (being used by some in this thread) is elevated body temp, while hypothermia is decreased body temp. This chap would have been suffering from hypothermia.