treis
August 24, 2007, 7:35pm
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Blake:
WTF?
You said our skin is like rawhide. Which, again, is laughable.
Blake:
You are claiming that these people spent days in the water with their skin from the armpits down totally disconnetcted not just from the blood supply but from the connective tissue.
Prey tell how did they manage to thermoregulate, never mind water balance problems?
Once again you don’t seem to understand that the upper layers of skin sloughed off. Thatis normal even with partial thickness burns. You dont; seem to understand this is not the entire skin, exposing the underlying muscles. Had that happened to all the skin on the body below the armpits a human being simply could not survive.
I don’t know why you think the deeper layers of the skin are any tougher than the outer.
LSLGuy
August 25, 2007, 1:38pm
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Relevant to wevets’ information, there is a great episode of Dirty Jobs where Mike goes to a place that makes display skeletons from dead critters. Very interesting in a goopy sorta way.
My google-fu was too weak to locate the company & my ad-blocking renders Discovery’s website inoperative, so I can’t give you a better link.
Duckster:
When the victim was brought to the Old Faithful Clinic he was already blind. That’s because his eyeballs had literally turned into hard-boiled eggs. (His head was wrapped to prevent his eyeballs from coming out of their sockets.) He was experiencing little to no pain. The only place the doctor could insert an IV was through the subclavian vein because the rest of his body was a mess.
He was only wearing pants, having removed his shirt before he dove into Celestine Pool (I don’t remember if he took his shirt off before diving into the pool, or already had it off.). The skin on his chest and back was literally sloughing off like newspaper pages caught in a breeze. He stayed in the Old Faithful Clinic just long enough for an air ambulance to be dispatched to West Yellowstone Airport to where it met the ambulance coming from Old Faithful. He died the next day in Salt Lake City.
Adding insult to injury, the new Old Faithful District Ranger had only been on the job about a week. He set the tone for his tenure there when he ordered a subordinate ranger to bring in the victim’s friend to the ranger station where he was cited for having a dog off leash. The fine at the time for that violation was five dollars.
The dog was never recovered from Celestine Pool, although body parts continued to surface for several days where they where skimmed off by park staff.
Thanks for elaborating on the story, Duckster .