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November 19, 2009 2:13 PM

Ahh, Winter! I'm sure we're all looking forward to Christmas presents, heated car seats, and New Year's resolutions that last as long as our hangovers. But it can't be all fun and games - thus, we enter Cold Water Boot Camp, instructed by none other than Professor Popsicle (U of Manitoba's Dr. Gordon Giesbrecht), who was back in the news last week after he drove a Mercury Sable into Winnipeg's Red River.
posted by mannequito (6 comments total)

Cold Water Boot Camp: The (very short) Movie (2:07), and Cold Water Boot Camp USA (10:05)
posted by filthy light thief at 2:33 PM on November 19, 2009

Didn't he also do a segment with Rick Mercer?
posted by GuyZero at 2:37 PM on November 19, 2009

The link doesn't say whether or not he did, but I hope he ensured that all of the fluids were drained from the car to prevent leakage.
posted by Burhanistan at 2:40 PM on November 19, 2009

"Discouraged by the lack of public awareness (of himself), Professor Popsicle found himself back in cold water again."
posted by longsleeves at 2:45 PM on November 19, 2009

There have been a few segments about Dr. Giesbrecht on Discovery Channel's Daily Planet. In one of them, they instrumented him with temperature probes and then lowered him into a tank of ice-cold water to measure how quickly his core temperature dropped. And because shivering would affect the results, they prevented it with a sufficient dose of demerol. It looked like a thoroughly unpleasant experience.
posted by FishBike at 3:38 PM on November 19, 2009

Dr. Giesbrecht was on Season 3, Episode 3 of the Rick Mercer Report 22 November 2005.

I couldn't find streaming video of the segment online, but it's not hard to find the right torrent. Not that I would condone that sort of highly illegal behaviour. No, sir, not me.
posted by The Narrator at 9:01 PM on November 19, 2009