Drowning does not look like drowning.
 

Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning - Soundings Online

This could be a life saver.:posting:

Thanks to Nicole Mitchell's Facebook page.

Finally took the time to read this today. This is good information. Thanks for sharing, Tal.

Good information! Good find Tal!

Some of my Facebook people I follow are often a wealth of information. Nicole Mitchell, for instance, has stuff on weather chasing airplanes (Hurricane Hunters) and Minnesota weather. That is the Nicole Mitchell who was on the Weather Channel but got into some kind of legal dispute and left to go to law school. She is a weather person now up in Minnesota. Nicole Mitchell (meteorologist - Wikipedia)

This is so true..at a pool party my daughter recently attended, a small child almost drowned right next to her father in the pool. She didn't utter a sound, just splashed frantically. Several people, including her father, thought she was just playing around until someone suddenly realized that she was in distress. Her dad pulled her out, and she was fine, but it was especially traumatic for everyone there. It was a group of Coast Guard rescue swimmers with their families.

I used to teach boating safety when I was in Maine and this article was one I read to the class (with the author's permission). As a former lifeguard with two saves, I thought using the classroom time to read this was very important. The textbook did a pretty poor job of covering how to identify who was in trouble.

Ouch! This brings a painful memory. We were swimming in a motel pool when one of our sons started to sink. Right at the edge was a couple in their 70s, and they were right there. They could have very easily pulled him out, but I ran around and did the pulling. Then I asked this couple why they did not pull him out. They said, "He is not our child."

Thanks Tal. While working as a lifeguard a couple summers in college I pulled a few children out. They were just quietly not coming up for air. Mothers obliviously sunning themselves.

What a terrible attitude to have! I also was at a motel a long time ago where there was an incident; a child ran out of one of the rooms, and jumped right into the deep end, and went under. A retired lifeguard sitting there registered that he hadn't come back up, and fished him out. The kid couldn't swim! Everyone else sitting there assumed that he could swim because he jumped in like that.