WATCH THIS VIDEO - Wavepool Lifeguard Rescue - Can You Spot The Drowning kid?

[AngryAmish]

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IT happens so fast. Kid is ok, but please keep an eye on kids on the water.

[Common Sense Party]

1. Yes, I spotted the kid right away. I almost drowned in a wave pool once

many years ago. I'll never go back in one of those deathtraps.

[Xyzse]

2. I couldn't find it. Where?

That is hard to find.

[malaise]

3. She was lucky

And yes it does happen very quickly

[RBInMaine]

4. That kid needed a life vest. She shouldn't have been in there without one. Good save!

Parents need to make sure that if their kids have swimming problems they need to wear a life vest especially in something like a wave pool.

Good job lifeguard !

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. I spotted her before the horn blew.

I saw a girl giving her assistance with the floaty ring even before the horn blew for the wave. The lifeguard probably saw it, too. He may have been watching her for awhile. He did a great job of getting her out of there without too much commotion or humiliation.

Disclaimer: I spent several summers as a lifeguard. I could sometimes pick out the kids that needed extra attention before they had even entered the pool. I once had to pull out a kid, who was bobbing just under the surface of the water like that, as his grandparents filmed the whole incident with their brand new video camera.

[AngryAmish]

7. I'm just a guy

I can swim well. I never saw her.

Kinda scary for us civilians.

[TrogL]

6. Instantly. She wasn't even doing a proper dog paddle.

On edit, as a child I fell in the Niagara River and have been terrified of water ever since even though I do like to swim in controlled circumstances, especially in mask and flippers. Hence, I'm ultra-sensitive to other people in the water.

[AsahinaKimi]

8. As a child I made the mistake of jumping into the deep end of the pool..

No one was around to save me, but I managed to get myself to the side of the pool, (This was at a YWCA.) and I told my parents about it. I was immediately enrolled in a day camp, and learned to swim. I was never afraid of the water, but I sure panicked when I realized what I had just done. Maybe that is how kids drown, by panicking. I loved swimming after learning.. and even learned to float on my back. I was too small for life guard training, but I guess I could have done it, were I ambitious enough.

[Arugula Latte]

9. She was thrashing about, but a lot of times that doesn't happen.

Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning

. . . . .

“Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.

Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.

Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.

Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.

From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/family/2013/06/rescuing_drowning_children_how_to_know_when_someone_is_in_trouble_in_the.html

[Brickbat]

10. I spotted her, but couldn't have done anything, as I can't swim.

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. That girl doesn't know how to swim, as is very clear

Why anyone would have let her on a tube above her depth, and in a wave pool no less, is a mystery. As soon as the tube was gone, she was over. She doesn't know how to stay above water.

[Fix The Stupid]

12. I am $^%@^ enraged after seeing that.

Seriously. WTF?

WTF was that kid doing in that pool?

Where are the fucking parents/guardians?

That child had no business, NONE, ZERO to be anywhere near a fucking pool, let alone a packed wave pool.

She couldn't even tread water - had ZERO experience.

I just can't imagine if that lifeguard hasn't been on the ball.

This just pisses me off. Can't believe there are parents out there so fucking irresponsible.

Would it have been the pool's fault or the lifeguards fault if she drowned? Parents would have sued, etc, a fucking travesty.

This video should be showed in every school.

[Butterbean]

13. Ugh, I feel queasy now. As a mom that kind of stuff really freaks me out.

I saw her right away, but then again I was told to look for her. I always think about that wherever we swim, that those poor lifeguards have SO MANY people to watch over, and that drowning happens in the blink of an eye.

My kids wear life jackets (yep, I'm that mom) and I stay in the pool with them the whole time. Neither of them have proven they can swim independently or been taught formally. My oldest was in swimming lessons, but he bit his teacher a few times (he has special needs), so I pulled him out for fear for her safety. We've been planning on putting them in individual lessons for a while now, but just haven't pulled the trigger. Something else always comes up. I know we need to get on it, though. Water safety is SO important.

[yurbud]

14. This happened in our complex pool a couple of weeks ago. A little girl's family wasn't watching her

very closely and she went under and did the hands over head.

Her grandmother asked where she was, I noticed her, and pulled her up and out.