In the seawater experiments “damage to the kidneys occurred after six days …show more content…
Victims were forced into a vat of icy water for three to four hours at a time. In the hypothermia experiments “fatalities occurred only when the brainstem and the back of the head were also chilled. Autopsies showed large amounts of free blood, up to 0.5L, in the cranial cavity. The heart invariably showed right-sided failure” (Andrew Korda). 89 subjects died in the hypothermia experiments. The results of the hypothermia experiments were “that the cause of death from hypothermia was probably ventricular fibrillation; that rewarming was effective; that the neck and the occiput have to be protected to minimise the effects of hypothermia and that significant increase in blood sugar and blood viscosity was associated with hypothermia due to immersion. Some of the data produced are considered scientifically useful” (Andrew