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Prevent Drowning Accidents
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Drowning is one of those horrible scenarios we always assume can’t happen to us! Most of us know how to swim and we watch our children closely so we feel safe. We take our families to pools or bodies of water that are considered safe and are often well populated so we have this sense of false safety.
One of my children was a life guard at a well known national chain of water parks. You would think that with that kind of job he wouldn’t have had much interest in swimming during his off hours! But that wasn’t the case. He and a group of his friends went swimming at a local park with swimming area on the river. He happen to hear a woman scream and scanned the horizon more out of habit than an awareness that something was wrong and he spotted a couple in the middle of the river with a struggling obviously drowning young boy (about 10 yrs old). Both this child’s parents had come to his aid however, as with many drowning individuals his struggles were pulling his parents down with him. All three were now in distress. He used his training and was able to get the young boy on his back to bring him to shore while one of his friends assisted the boy’s mother in making it back to shore. The father was fortunate enough to have enough energy left to swim himself to safety. The EMT’s found all three to be exhausted but in good enough shape to send home shaken but without any permanent injury.
This was a safe, populated area and the child had both parents who swam watching over him, yet the entire family almost became a tragic statistic. So what to do to be safer? Dr Joe Alton has some information for us on preventing drowning accidents and surviving those that do occur in his video below.
Enjoy the summer and your water fun, just be do so safely!
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