ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Well done Nigeyy!
So if you've got young kids, keep an eye on them around water (please)
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swee'pea99
Squire
My youngest probably saved her friend from drowning at that sort of age. I wasn't there, but, two families down by the river, kids playing around, parents chatting. Suddenly my youngest, who would have been 5 or 6 at the time, appears in front of the grown ups with Molly, a year or two younger, soaking wet. By all accounts Molly had reached out for a stick floating by, toppled into the water, started going under, and mine had reached out, grabbed her by the scruff of the neck and hauled her out. All over in a matter of seconds, and mine apparently couldn't understand what all the fuss was about.
Piemaster
Guru
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- UK City of Culture
Well done Nigeyy.
I did a first aid course last year. One thing the guy running it (an ex A+E nurse) said was if trying to resuscitate a drowning is don't give up, ESPECIALLY in cold water and NEVER give up with a child pulled from cold water.
I did a first aid course last year. One thing the guy running it (an ex A+E nurse) said was if trying to resuscitate a drowning is don't give up, ESPECIALLY in cold water and NEVER give up with a child pulled from cold water.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
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- One of the 'Elite'
That's cos the brain can survive for a lot longer in cold conditions when starved of oxygen.
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
*gets coat and ticket to Hull*
Piemaster
Guru
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- UK City of Culture
Youtube and Hull in same post. I'm intrigued, pity I can't see the vid.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Yes that was it exactly, I just bobbed up and down, trying to get my feet on the bottom of the pool (I was so close to where I could have stood - I had gone out further that I normally would have on an inflatable dolphin and had somehow come off it, letting go on the inflatable in the process), every time I went under, I breathed in more water/swallowed because I was trying to get some air at the same time and couldn't process the two things quickly enough before it started again, causing me to cough.
I was starting to think that I would have to start swimming underwater to get back to safety, except that I didn't have enough breath by this point, and besides, I was coughing too much.
What I remember most about it was the noise of the packed pool, it suddenly being muffled, then loud, then muffled, then loud, and so on.
I was near to where a lifeguard was, so I don't know if he got someone to help or if the guy who saved me saw it himself and knew what it was, I was about 6 and never thought to ask as I didn't really know what had just happened, although I was grateful as I had got a bit of a fright. I wonder who he was and where he is now.
That said, it never put me off swimming again, I had learned my lesson.
Some parents are simply stupid!
I was in a pub t'other day
They have a disabled toilet in the bar with a sliding door.
Two small kids opening it and slamming it shut repeatedly... only a matter before one of the kids got their hand crushed.
Quiet word, and parents could not see what was wrong, and let them carry on
Quiet word with bar staff about it, who to their credit promptly removed small children back to parents, with stern warning
I was in a pub t'other day
They have a disabled toilet in the bar with a sliding door.
Two small kids opening it and slamming it shut repeatedly... only a matter before one of the kids got their hand crushed.
Quiet word, and parents could not see what was wrong, and let them carry on
Quiet word with bar staff about it, who to their credit promptly removed small children back to parents, with stern warning
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