History Main / FrigidWaterIsHarmless

* Averted in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie''. Unless turned into a walrus, the frigit water of [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Freezeezy Peak]] (which luckily is more often than not knee-deep) will harm Banjo and Kazooie, costing them a unit of energy for every five seconds or so they remain on it.

-->-- ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' on ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}: Below Zero''

* In ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', Rose goes into the lower decks to rescue Jack. The water that Rose and Jack traverse would have been as cold as the water outside of the ship. They are not nearly as affected by the cold water as anyone would have been in real life. Just going on deck in wet clothes would have been deliberating.

* In ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', Rose goes into the lower decks to rescue Jack. The water that Rose and Jack traverse would have been as cold as the water outside of the ship. They are not nearly as affected by the cold water than anyone would have been in real life. Just going on deck in wet clothes would have been deliberating.

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* ''Film/GhostShip'' ends with [[spoiler: Epps, the SoleSurvivor of the salvage crew,]] clinging to debris in the Bering Sea, which has an average temperature of 34-41 F. It's not specified how much time she spends adrift before a passing cruise ship picks her up, but realistically she would only have survived for [[http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/coastal_communities/hypothermia two hours]].

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' episode ''In the Arctic'', when Ralphie and Phoebe get stranded on an iceberg, Arnold suggests swimming across to save them, but quickly changes his mind when Dorothy Ann informs him that he could freeze to death in minutes if he tried.

* In ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', the Peach gets lost in the Arctic amongst a graveyard of shipwrecks. As they contemplate their situation, they believe that one of the ships may have a compass that would help them get to New York City, but that they'd have to brave the frigid waters to get one. Centipede, Miss Spider, and James all jump into the sea, and accomplish this task. Never mind the frigid water, the entire sequence plays out like it [[WaterIsAir/normally would on land]]. They [[WalkDontSwim/walk underwater]], [[SuperNotDrowningSkills/breathe and speak to one another]], all while fighting off a literal skeleton crew of pirates. When they return to the surface, there are, of course, no ill effects of the frigid water.

Some children's cartoons and games will acknowledge the dangers of frigid waters by having a character who falls into them be [[InstantIceJustAddCold be encased in a rectangular block of ice]], but this [[HarmlessFreezing doesn't seem to actually hurt them]]. These examples are for when a character takes a dip in freezing waters and ''doesn't suffer any effects whatsoever''.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': According to the ''Frostburn'' sourcebook, if you have Cold Resistance 5, you are immune to natural cold climates, making this a JustifiedTrope.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}: Below Zero'' you must maintain body heat or die of hypothermia. In air you are at risk of freezing in minutes, but the easiest way to escape the danger is to hop in the ocean. As long as you keep swimming, your body temperature will not drop.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' episode ''In the Arctic'', when Ralphie and Phoebe get stranded on an iceberg, Arnold suggests swimming across to save them, but quickly changes his mind when Dorothy Ann informs him that he could freeze to death in minutes if he did.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' episode ''In the Arctic'', when Ralhpie and Phoebe get stranded on an iceberg, Arnold suggests swimming across to save them, but quickly changes his mind when Dorothy Ann informs him that he could freeze to death in minutes if he did.

Sub-trope of ExposedToTheElements, and closely related to HarmlessFreezing. ThermalDissonance may also be at play here. Compare the polar opposite, ConvectionSchmonvection. Contrast DangerThinIce, BravingTheBlizzard, FreezeSneeze and CatchYourDeathOfCold, wherein being exposed to the cold does have consequences.

Sub-trope of ExposedToTheElements, and closely related to HarmlessFreezing. Compare the polar opposite, ConvectionSchmonvection. Contrast DangerThinIce, BravingTheBlizzard, FreezeSneeze and CatchYourDeathOfCold, wherein being exposed to the cold does have consequences.

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* ''TabletopGames/DungeonsAndDragons'': According to the ''Frostburn'' sourcebook, if you have Cold Resistance 5, you are immune to natural cold climates, making this a JustifiedTrope.

* ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII'' averts this in the Antarctica levels giving Lara a hypothermia meter which drains once she swims in open water.

** ''VideoGame/SonicAdvance'': Played straight with Ice Mountain Zone and Twinkle Snow, respectively in the first and third games, which are both half-underwater and allow to swim freely in the icy water.