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Nope, it's much lower in winter, at least off the coast of Kuwait. Currently both air and water temperatures are in the range of 10-15 C (the shallower water occasionally dips below 10C).
If you head southeast towards the UAE and further, the water gets warmer.
If you swim off the coast of Kuwait in July and August, you can easily get heatstroke. Water temperatures are in the mid-30s C (mid 90s F) and air temperatures over the water are around 40 C (104 F). Perhaps I should start a thread on the "maximum comfortable" swimming temperature
Heat stroke?
People that have been stranded in open tropical waters will still eventually die of hypothermia, that's if they don't drown first, because eventually the body temperature cannot be maintained.
Heat stroke?
People that have been stranded in open tropical waters will still eventually die of hypothermia, that's if they don't drown first, because eventually the body temperature cannot be maintained.
The Persian Gulf is not a tropical ocean by any means. Tropical waters run at 26-28 C, while the Gulf runs at around 34-36 C (over 38C in shallow water). The human body is a heat-generating machine, so you don't need a water temperature of 37C to maintain homeostasis. A water temperature of approximately 32C to 33C would maintain equilibrium - any higher than this and you will indeed get heat stroke if the air is humid (but not if the air is dry as the poster from Death Valley indicated).
Heat stroke?
People that have been stranded in open tropical waters will still eventually die of hypothermia, that's if they don't drown first, because eventually the body temperature cannot be maintained.
Heat stroke is possible in very warm waters, but it's more associated with competitive swimming and high exertion. There's a big difference between 35C and 25C waters... even 25C waters can lead to hypothermia after long enough. But I doubt 35C waters would. You'd probably die of dehydration, excess salt intake, or heat stroke first.
Heat stroke is possible in very warm waters, but it's more associated with competitive swimming and high exertion. There's a big difference between 35C and 25C waters... even 25C waters can lead to hypothermia after long enough. But I doubt 35C waters would. You'd probably die of dehydration, excess salt intake, or heat stroke first.
I am aware of the high salt content of this water in the Persian Gulf, so yes dehydration could occur first.
These are basically spa bath type water temps, stay in one for long enough and eventually you will get cool -so you have to keep moving, even with sauna like conditions outside.
Nope, it's much lower in winter, at least off the coast of Kuwait. Currently both air and water temperatures are in the range of 10-15 C (the shallower water occasionally dips below 10C).
If you head southeast towards the UAE and further, the water gets warmer.
It was 5C/45F here at about 7.00 this morning, and will probably be warm enough (water temp at >18C) to swim later this afternoon. It all depends on the sun and the (lack of ) wind
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