Word: hypothermia
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...stormy Baltic Sea. It went down at 12:34 a.m. Wednesday, so quickly that only 139 of the 1,051 passengers on board were pulled from the water alive. The few who did not drown trapped in the dark cabins of the stricken ship died of shock and hypothermia in the 50 degrees F water...
...Waking up in the morning, I just want to cry," said Michael McGovern '97, a resident of Leverett Towers. "It feels like hypothermia. If this keep up I'm moving back home...
Concepcion lives on an assortment of rolls, bread and coffee, rarely sleeps more than three hours a night, and needs to continue pacing back and forth in front of her signs throughout Washington's bitter-cold winters to avoid dying of hypothermia. Despite all of this, Concepcion's main worry is harassment...
...also problematic, for though it shone not brightly it was showering us with imperceptible and deadly UV rays. Some black clouds were sort of hanging around on the edges of the admittedly huge and natural skyscape. As I knew too well, this was appropriate weather for a little dreaded hypothermia. And my legs were itching, let me tell you, hopping with invisible ticks although I had tucked my jeans into my socks...
Going into the mountains involves some degree of deadly risk. Hypothermia can kill you on an August day in New Hampshire. Avalanches can rumble down in the Rockies from the first October snowfall through June. Mountains are complex places, easy to get lost...