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BMG
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Everyone who spends any time around water needs to read this. It may help you save someone's life.
A must read article from USCG rescue Swimmer Mario Vittone.
I think the world is run by C- students.
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BajaBruno
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Very interesting article. Thanks for posting.
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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redhilltown
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I was unfortunately at San Quintin last year fishing when three local girls drowned right off the shore in condition similar to what he states
here...no yelling, no splashing, and quite close to shore. You can't keep too close of an eye on kids in these situations and if a few people read
this post and bone up on their first aid and cpr, it can't be a bad thing. (if anyone here is in S.Q. and knows of the incident and how things turned
out could you please U2U me?)
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KASHEYDOG
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Great article BMG. Thanks for sharing. It will make a change in the way I watch people in the water from now on.  
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irenemm
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Thanks for the post. I have learned something from this. i am sure anyone who reads it will learn something from it.
redhilltown
I live just north of San Quintin and will find out about the girls. I know at the beach here. Over the years a few people have died. We have a bad
undertow and it has claimed a few lifes.
thanks for the information
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Cypress
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BMG, Thanks.
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This is something I will share with all of my friends. Thanks
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larryC
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And, just as a follow up, if you ever find yourself in a situation where you have saved someone from drowning or near drowning. Even if they seem fine
at the moment, get that person to some medical help. Sometimes the lungs will fill with fluids after a near drowning, and the person can stop
breathing, it is called "parking lot drowning" can't remember all the details but it is not all that uncommon.
Larry
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wow. I had no idea that's what happens as a person drowns. Makes perfect sense, though.
As KASHEYDOG said, this will make a big difference in how I watch people in the water from now on.
Thanks BMG for posting this. Already I've emailed to friends.
nena
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I had the bejeezus scared out of me a few years back when a two year old nephew stepped into our pool. He just walked in like he was expecting to
walk on water. I was right next to him. He went all the way to the bottom and just looked up at me through the water with the calmest look. He
reached his hands up to me and I just reached down, pulled him out by his hands and stood him up on the pool deck. No panic on him at all- until his
mother and everyone else freaked out and everything came apart...
As a youth in high school we skipped school one day to swim across Walden Pond. I swam across and back and then spotted a friend going under in the
middle. No panic, nothing. I just swam out and towed him back in (had my Red Cross junior lifeguard training). We never even talked about it...
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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Thanks---good to know!
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One time in Santa Monica my husband and I were swimming when suddenly I lost all my energy! Couldn't cry for help and thought it was over for me. My
husband saw the frantic look on my face and caught me before I went down what was probably for the last time!!! Ever since then I wear a water skiing
band just for protection in any water over my head.
We all want a peaceful world, filled with love and laughter, but we fill ourselves with anger and hate trying to fiqure out how to achive it.
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Really a great article and a great post. Thank you for sharing it---we are passing it on to many people.
THANKS
Diana
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Way Back When
Probably around '82 during Easter Break in Percebu, in the first of the many drownings over the years while I've been there, there was a College-Age
lad out in the Lagoon Snorkeling and being ignored by everyone else (who were, no doubt, mostly blasted) until someone noticed that there was
NO Snorkel.
No telling how long the Kid had been floating around dead with swimmers all around. It was remarked that it was a good thing the tide hadn't been
ebbing or he might have ended up on the way to La Paz.
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Facebooking this...
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Marc
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As a competitive open water long distance swimmer (distant past) I tend to be somewhat cavalier about what is going on in and on the water. What feels
so natural to some can be so deadly to others. Thanks for this input.
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Great post! I didn't know this had a description and was classic. Once I was tending a toddler in the pool. I was sitting on the edge and he was on
the steps. I took my eyes off him for a moment and when I looked back he was in just that position, arms out but motionless, big eyes looking up a me
underwater and all in complete silence. I just had time to think "What on Earth!" and grab him and he was okay, had not inhaled water. Thank you for
bringing this to my attention.
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Very good article, thanks!
bacquito
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Excellent article. I shared on FB as well.
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Good article. I was a seasonal beach lifeguard for 30 years. I would add three things. 1. People in trouble in the surf look back at the beach.
When you start seeing faces the swimmers are starting to get worried. 2. If they are in a rip they are probably in trouble even if they don't show
any of the signs yet. 3. Don't try to make a surf rescue unless you really know what you are doing and have the proper equipment. (minimum, a
torpedo buoy (sometimes called a can) and fins)
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