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If you haven't already seen this, please read and watch the video. I never knew this...
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I never knew that, and my brother was a certified life guard!
the video didn't work for me, but I found this one. It says that it can take just 20-60 seconds, less in children and drowning children look like they are doing the doggy paddle. -
Bumping this up. Super important. Thanks for posting
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I know from experience how quickly a drowning can happen. It's a silent death.Comment
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Thank you! I read this a few years ago and was just looking for this article today. Everyone needs to read this, not just people who care for children.
Actually I was looking for this article bc my teen aged son was asking to go to a large, spring fed public pool today, his last day of school. I initially said no bc it's kind of a crazy place, too many people, a diving board, I didn't feel safe with him going and he was going with friends. I was working. I finally, on the advice of my husband, relented and he went.
Just checked in with my teen, they've all been out if the pool for a while bc someone DIED by drowning just now!!! My son watched as this man wasn't resuscitated!
Jeez! Mom's intuition. They always think I'm too protective.Comment
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This is why I recently declined an invitation to spend a weekend at Oceans of Fun with family. A couple years ago my husband, my then 3 yo DS, and I were in the wave pool and DH and I both almost drowned. We weren't much more than waist deep! Even though it was extremely difficult to get the life guards attention, I tried so hard to. Problem was, we were both focused more on bouncing DS back and forth between the two of us so HE wouldn't drown. If we had just focused on ourselves first everything probably would have been a whole lot easier... anyway, a guy near us pulled DH forward a little so he could get better footing and then DH pulled me and DS... life guards didn't even notice, I'm sure or maybe it looked like we were playing with DS.
My point is, these places are many times WAY overcrowded and that makes it even more difficult to determine if someone is in trouble.
Thank you, OP, for posting this! I shared it on Facebook to get the word out.Comment
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Crafymissbeth, how scary!! It so true, lifeguards aren't trained very well. And I think that's really scary. They couldn't tell you were in distress, I wonder if they've been trained to identify it?
My teen said that yesterday when they pulled the guy (who was 21) from the water that two of the lifeguards there didn't even know CPR!! They had to wait for another to run from the other side if the huge pool to come and start it!!
The EMS took 30 plus minutes to get down there and by then they had been doing CPR continuously with no response from the man.
I never knew drowning wasn't distress and isn't like you see in the movies until I read the above article. I'm going to post it on by business FB page.Comment
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My dd was rescued 2x by lifeguards. The first time, the lifeguard noticed immediately. I noticed seconds later, as he was jumping in.
the 2nd time, I noticed first, and screamed. (I was sitting near the children's pool looking for heads). I saw her go down and not come back up. I ran toward her, but the lifeguard obviously heard me scream and got to her first. It took a minute (seemed a lot longer, but it was about 1 minute).
My kids are all in lessons, and so far, she's the only one who has not progressed. She's scared, reasonably so. I don't let them go to lessons without someone there anymore (after those incidents that happened right there, I felt even my olders can't be without mom), aside from teachers/lifeguards. While my olders finally learned to swim and one of my youngers can somewhat swim, I don't count my chickens. As a pp posted, even her own self and DH almost drowned. This means that it doesn't matter what age you are, swimming can be risky.
On the news channel we were watching this morning, it was explained that drowning is very silent and there are no "signs" but that you see a head just under water, not coming back up and no noise/sound coming from the person.
I count to 30 and if my kids at lessons, heads don't come back up, I'm pulling them up.Comment
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My friends enrolled their preschool aged daughter and their toddler in a called ISR (infant swim self rescue survival) swimming. It teaches kids-even that young how to rescue themselves if they become face down in water. She put the video of her toddler doing it on FB and it was so scary to watch, the instructor just threw that toddler in and the toddler turned himself over and began swimming! It was amazing! I know that won't work in all situations, but it definitely would help if a toddler -or anyone for that matter-knew the skills. I don't know much about it, but you can find info on the internet.
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