In ice water, the worst thing is not hypothermia, but seizures, muscle spasms that can kill a swimmer in a few minutes. Alcohol could save you from spasms.
Yyy: The worst thing, namely, the hypothermia. In the presence of a lifeguard, seizures are not critical.
The devil knows it! I had a hatched acquaintance — he was sitting behind a fight, in the dust of which, according to witnesses, he threw a concrete bench. During the investigative experiment, that is, in a sober form, he was unable to raise it.
zzz: my friend drunk walked into a small shelf in the toilet in a women's dormitory, for this I even had to dress up to the belt, but sober didn't work out. Thus e. Alcohol increases the flexibility or desire to climb to girls. Or rather all together.