Drowning doesn't look like drowning

[msuwaterski]

Hey crew. A friend sent me this article the other day and I felt it was important to share. After reading the article I was really surprised at how little I knew about what drowning looks like and the signs of a person in aquatic distress. Please do yourself, your family, and your friends a solid and take 5 minutes to read this article (link below). Who knows, the information you read today might help you to save a life in the future.

Jeff

Please read

[DIE2SURF]

It's accurate. I know from very personal experiences.

Thanks for the link.

[mcbean7]

Good article Jeff. Thanks for posting.

[WakingMeHappy]

That is a very good article. I just printed it for my entire family to read. And both my sons are swim instructors and certified life guards.

[k_b_stephens]

Excellent post....

[Chappy]

Thanks for sharing; heading to Lake Chelan for a week with 5 familes so this is very timely!

[martinarcher]

Thanks for sharing. I'm been through lifeguard swim/rescue training and did not know a lot of what was in that article.

[92skier]

That was a good read. I printed this out to give to all of the crew we hang out with. There has been 6 drownings in the river and lake that we hang out in this year and everyone is on edge, so I thought this would be good for them to read. Thanks for sharing.

[waterbaby4evr]

Thank you so much for sharing that article. I didn't know any of that information and I am going to make everyone who gets on my boat read it before we head out.

[rodman]

Great post everyone should pay attention.

I have been there, went down for the 3rd time and someone pulled me out of lake Erie.

Since then I have helped to save 2 children. STAY AWARE

[TrickyNicky]

on all the otehr comments. GREAT article. I'm a very strong swimmer and I know my CPR but all this information was relatively new to me. Not surprising but definitlty a very good heads up.

Thanks

[Michigan boarder]

That is an excellent article. And yes, when the kids are quiet you should be scared.

I was at a picnic last summer, tons of kids jumping off of a very large pier, in 12 feet of water, including my two boys. No jackets on anyone. I hated every minute of it because I was the only parent watching..."He's 10, been swimming for years, he's fine" or "He's with his two brothers, they'll keep an eye on each other". I hated it. Nobody drowned, but man.

At the same pier, a different picnic, I was watching my daughter wading & playing with other little kids and toy boats, age 3 no jacket. I was 30 feet from her. I took my eyes off her during a conversation to look at another person, for maybe 3 seconds, I look back in just enough time to see her stagger backwards and go in too deep, taking water in her mouth and start panic mode. By the time I got to her (2 seconds?) she had lost her feet and was under water, hands above the surface and arms flailing. I was a responsible parent, playing with her for a while in the sand, then standing there watching her with other kids, paying very close attention. And it happens that quickly, without a sound, and nobody around (50 people?) would have known.

I've printed that article too for the family, and plan to circulate it with friends.

[TrickyNicky]

That is an excellent article. And yes, when the kids are quiet you should be scared.

I was at a picnic last summer, tons of kids jumping off of a very large pier, in 12 feet of water, including my two boys. No jackets on anyone. I hated every minute of it because I was the only parent watching..."He's 10, been swimming for years, he's fine" or "He's with his two brothers, they'll keep an eye on each other". I hated it. Nobody drowned, but man.

At the same pier, a different picnic, I was watching my daughter wading & playing with other little kids and toy boats, age 3 no jacket. I was 30 feet from her. I took my eyes off her during a conversation to look at another person, for maybe 3 seconds, I look back in just enough time to see her stagger backwards and go in too deep, taking water in her mouth and start panic mode. By the time I got to her (2 seconds?) she had lost her feet and was under water, hands above the surface and arms flailing. I was a responsible parent, playing with her for a while in the sand, then standing there watching her with other kids, paying very close attention. And it happens that quickly, without a sound, and nobody around (50 people?) would have known.

I've printed that article too for the family, and plan to circulate it with friends.

Sounds familiar. My family was at a family friends having dinner in the backyard by there pool. There were ten of us in and out the pool throughout the evening and their 2-3 yr old was running around with no life jacket. Apparantly he was afraid of the water so he wouldn't go in. I was spraying him with a little water gun and he'd run off etc. Finally I go to get out of the pool and his older sister yells and points to the shallow end. He's lying at the surface of the water face up completely motionless. I happened to be the closest one, and jumped in and pulled him out. As soon as I lifted him from the water he coughed up some water and I than handed him to his father, a doctor. We came to the conclusion that he was sitting on the steps to the pool interested in the water and than either took a step or got pulled by some small waves. Either way we were all having a good time and he was staying away from the pool. Than I turn around and we find him QUIET as can be face up floating like an ice cube. Thinking of that image still makes me cringe. BS luck that his sister saw him when she did.

We all love the water, but play it smart.

[Sixball]

Good article Jeff. Thanks for posting.

another thanks.

[Tyger]

Thanks for sharing. This is definitely good to know and not obvious!

[Faceplant409]

Thanks again for posting this!!

Kinda foo topic but in the same realm...I've told this before...

In 2000 some friends of ours were at a local lake and had a stand up jetski floating on the beach facing the lake. 4-5 kids playing in the shallows. One of the 5yr old boys manages to start the ski and pin the throttle!!! He fell off immediately and was fine.....No one had noticed that another girl was missing... He had run over his 6 yr old cousin. She had been knocked unconscious by the ski and drown shortly after...

WATCH YOUR KIDS! DUMMY PROOF EVERYTHING! I cannot remember if the ski had a kill lanyard, it was old so I doubt it.

Patrick

Edited July 13, 2010 by Faceplant409

[Stanley Wheelhouse]

Valuable info. thanks for sharing this.

[MalibuNation]

Thanks ... I lost a cousin to drowning!

[crom]

That article was a real eye opener, I was under the drowning = frantic splashing and yelling , the TV version illusion. Don't know what I would do if one of my kids drowned.

[Koop]

Excellent post! Thanks for sharing this information.

[Ndawg12]

This is on the front page of yahoo today.

[sonny20]

Apparently there are 6 types of drowning instead of 1 type - how many can you name?

https://www.yahoo.com/health/there-are-6-types-of-drowning-4-that-youve-119392134222.html

Edited May 28, 2015 by sonny20

[NHolladay]

Great post, Let not forget how every child should have a life jacket on even by the water until at least 9 or 10, and always while in it until they are 20 OK maybe not 20 but.... Sorry it is just the dad in me that says it would be way to painful to lose a child like that

[09vRide]

Great post. Thank you.

[tvano]

feel like an annual reminder may be worth bumping