try and keep your head out of the water - this is where you lose the most heat. Also cross your arms and put your hands in your armpits, and cross your legs. However, you need to keep afloat so all of these may not be possible at once! Just try and find something to hold onto.
If you fall over into freezing water, you should try to reboard even if swamped, and get out of the water as much as possible.
Inattention - carelessness - intoxication are all reasons why a person could fall overboard.
Carelessness and inattention is most likely the cause of someone to fall overboard.
Carelessness and inattention is most likely the cause of someone to fall overboard.
Inattention - carelessness - intoxication are all reasons why a person could fall overboard.
It 'kills' the engine - should the craft's pilot fall overboard, or collapse.
It is if all the proper precautions are taken.
If a person falls overboard, you should reach for a life preserver and try to help them.
Keep on clothes
Ideally, they should be worn at all times. If you fall overboard, you won't be able to retrieve a PFD (Personal Floatation Device) from a locker on the boat.
standing up on a boat
Easy one: The best possible method to prevent drowning from a fall overboard or capsizing is to HAVE ONES LIFE VEST ON. So simple - and so relatively few people do it.