The father, on the other hand, had learned what drowning looks like by watching television.
The crew member was trained by experts and years of experience to recognise drowning. How did this man know, from 15 metres away, what the parents couldn’t recognise from just three metres? Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people expect. Safely above the surface in the arms of her rescuer, the girl burst into tears, ‘Daddy!’ Directly behind them, not ten feet away, their nine-year-old daughter was drowning. ‘Move!’ he barked as he sprinted between the stunned parents. ‘We’re fine!’ the husband yelled, waving him off, but the former lifeguard kept swimming hard. ‘We’re fine, what is he doing?’ she asked, a little annoyed. A husband and wife had been splashing each other and she had screamed but now they were just standing, neck-deep on the sandbar. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim and headed straight for the boat’s owners, who were swimming between their anchored craft and the beach. ’įormer Coast Guard rescue swimmer, Mario Vittone relates the following story about a near-drowning:Ī new crew member jumped from his boat, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water.
‘In ten percent of child drownings, an adult will actually watch the child drown and have no idea what is happening. This blog explains why those nearby often miss vital signs that a child or adult is drowning within reach. Read on for more information on Royal Life Saving NSW’s new innovative early childhood program to tackle unacceptably high child drownings. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television and cinema) prepares us to look for, is rarely seen in real life. Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event.
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