CNN is currently running this story about a crash survivor burying another survivor in sand to prevent hypothermia. It seems to me this would be more likely to cause a further loss of body heat. Any opinions?


"A pilot dragged his passenger to safety and buried him neck-deep in sand to protect him from hypothermia Sunday night after their helicopter crashed in crocodile-infested mudflats in Australia's Northern Territory.
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Finding his friend seriously hurt, the pilot dragged him back to shore, away from the crocodiles -- and buried him in sand up to his neck to prevent him from freezing to death."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/22/australia.chopper.crash/index.html