Dear IP: feigned indignation only. The only thing the tan would have done would have
been to enable me to live a day or two extra.
Incidentally, after getting a bit of a tan, I fell asleep on hatch cover for almost 30
minutes. When I awoke, I found my shorts had sagged exposing a small bit of dead
white skin. I was burned almost third degree. Extrapolating, without tan, on a liferaft
I could have had fatal burn in only a little more than a half hour.