Top Tips for Dealing with the After Drop when Wild Swimming

When swimming in cold water, once you get out your body temperature will continue to drop for anything up to 20 minutes. There are a few key Do's and Don'ts to follow to ensure you warm up slowly, which means safely.

Apologies for the sound quality at the beginning. The perils of recording in the water! Switch on the subtitles!

Here Jay goes through his top tips. Do you have any? Pop them in the comments below.

[giuliomagarotto]

Great video, like all the other on the channel! Just to know, can I ask you what was the water temperature and what kind of wetsuit you were using to swimming? I'm planning to start wild swimming in wetsuit (in these period I regularly go on SUP) and I currently own a 3mm wetsuit, before buying a thicker one I'd like to get an idea of what are the "standard temperatures" related to neoprene thickness... of course it depends on every person, but just to know if with something not thicker than a 3mm I could afford to go swimming with water temeprature lower than 15° 🙂

[lumailisa]

Does anyone know why the after drop happens? Is there a scientific reason or is it just the process of switching clothes in cold air?