New liner contains a substance that helps fight heat loss in chilly water
By Sid Perkins
Web edition: May 28, 2013
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A 17-year-old from South Africa has invented a warming liner (blue cloth liner, shown on table) for life jackets.
Credit: Patrick Thornton, SSP
Sometimes the biggest threat from a boat sinking isn?t the accident itself. It?s not even the sharks that might be swimming nearby. It?s a life-threatening loss of body heat from remaining too long in cold water. Now, a South African teen has invented a heat-producing liner for life jackets. It could help delay injuries ? or death ? until a rescue is possible.
Danielle Mallabone, 17, from St. Teresa?s High School in Johannesburg, presented her findings May 13 in Phoenix, Ariz., at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. The Society for Science & the Public, which created the fair in 1950, still runs the competition. (SSP also publishes Science News?and?Science News for Kids.)
Visit the new Science News for Kids website and read the full story: A warming life jacket.
Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/350666/title/FOR_KIDS_A_warming_life_jacket
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