PSA. Get off your phone. Drowning is silent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Video of a 5yo drowning in a pool with several adults just walking by. Its terrifying and makes me sick to my stomach to see, but is also informative and really struck home to me just how easily something so horrible could happen.

It includes the 5 'real' signs of drowning:

-Head Tilted Back: The victim will tilt their head back to attempt to get air and breathe
•Mouth at Water Level: A drowning victim is trying to keep their mouth at water’s level to get air but has no time to yell for help because they are barely able to take in air. The mouth will bop up for air and back down under the water.
•No Waiving or Hailing For Help: Nature instinctively forces victims to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water. 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.
•Eyes Appear Glassy / Empty
•Bodies Stay Upright in the Water: The victim will stay upright in the water because of the lateral arm pressing, but there is usually no supporting kick.

Holy crap, that video is terrifying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Video of a 5yo drowning in a pool with several adults just walking by. Its terrifying and makes me sick to my stomach to see, but is also informative and really struck home to me just how easily something so horrible could happen.

It includes the 5 'real' signs of drowning:

-Head Tilted Back: The victim will tilt their head back to attempt to get air and breathe
•Mouth at Water Level: A drowning victim is trying to keep their mouth at water’s level to get air but has no time to yell for help because they are barely able to take in air. The mouth will bop up for air and back down under the water.
•No Waiving or Hailing For Help: Nature instinctively forces victims to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water. 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.
•Eyes Appear Glassy / Empty
•Bodies Stay Upright in the Water: The victim will stay upright in the water because of the lateral arm pressing, but there is usually no supporting kick.

Holy crap, that video is terrifying.

Yes, it is absolutely terrifying. Please watch your kids closely at the pool this summer!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Video of a 5yo drowning in a pool with several adults just walking by. Its terrifying and makes me sick to my stomach to see, but is also informative and really struck home to me just how easily something so horrible could happen.

It includes the 5 'real' signs of drowning:

-Head Tilted Back: The victim will tilt their head back to attempt to get air and breathe
•Mouth at Water Level: A drowning victim is trying to keep their mouth at water’s level to get air but has no time to yell for help because they are barely able to take in air. The mouth will bop up for air and back down under the water.
•No Waiving or Hailing For Help: Nature instinctively forces victims to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water. 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.
•Eyes Appear Glassy / Empty
•Bodies Stay Upright in the Water: The victim will stay upright in the water because of the lateral arm pressing, but there is usually no supporting kick.

Holy crap, that video is terrifying.

Yes, it is absolutely terrifying. Please watch your kids closely at the pool this summer!

That was seriously upsetting to watch. Miraculously, the boy is ok. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4584114/amp/Horrifying-moment-five-year-old-boy-starts-drowning.html

Don’t leave your kids in the pool and go to the sauna!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was talking to a doctor last weekend who does pediatric heart transplants at a top transplant hospital - he said offhandedly "It'll be a busy weekend because we always get a few kids' hearts over Memorial Day weekend due to drownings." Chilling and true. WATCH YOUR KIDS.

Ugh, this gives me the shivers.

Thanks for the reminder OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Video of a 5yo drowning in a pool with several adults just walking by. Its terrifying and makes me sick to my stomach to see, but is also informative and really struck home to me just how easily something so horrible could happen.

It includes the 5 'real' signs of drowning:

-Head Tilted Back: The victim will tilt their head back to attempt to get air and breathe
•Mouth at Water Level: A drowning victim is trying to keep their mouth at water’s level to get air but has no time to yell for help because they are barely able to take in air. The mouth will bop up for air and back down under the water.
•No Waiving or Hailing For Help: Nature instinctively forces victims to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water. 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.
•Eyes Appear Glassy / Empty
•Bodies Stay Upright in the Water: The victim will stay upright in the water because of the lateral arm pressing, but there is usually no supporting kick.

Holy crap, that video is terrifying.

Yes, it is absolutely terrifying. Please watch your kids closely at the pool this summer!

That was seriously upsetting to watch. Miraculously, the boy is ok. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4584114/amp/Horrifying-moment-five-year-old-boy-starts-drowning.html

Don’t leave your kids in the pool and go to the sauna!

OMFG he's LIFELESS BODY hits a woman and it still takes her a bit to realize he's almost dead. I can not believe how many people walked right past him. I also have a hard time believing he has no lasting effects from being oxygen deprived that long...

[Anonymous]

Where the hell were the lifeguards?? It’s sickening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They can drown in the baby pool, too. Dh saw a toddler standing in the baby pool and fall backwards, and then didn’t move with his face under, maybe because he was surprised. Luckily the toddler’s mom noticed and got him out.

Same situation happened to me. My then 3 y/o slipped in the baby pool and panicked

[Anonymous]

Last summer I was the pool with my kids who were then 3 and 1. My 1YO was in the shallow-entry, right next to me, walking around on his arms, with his body floating. My eyes were on him the whole time, as he moved past me, so that his back was to me. He was there for what, in hindsight, seems like a long time, when I grabbed him, and he took a huge gasp of air. It turned out that the depth had changed and his arms were no longer touching, and he couldn't get up. I was staring right at him. It's hard to even think about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Video of a 5yo drowning in a pool with several adults just walking by. Its terrifying and makes me sick to my stomach to see, but is also informative and really struck home to me just how easily something so horrible could happen.

It includes the 5 'real' signs of drowning:

-Head Tilted Back: The victim will tilt their head back to attempt to get air and breathe
•Mouth at Water Level: A drowning victim is trying to keep their mouth at water’s level to get air but has no time to yell for help because they are barely able to take in air. The mouth will bop up for air and back down under the water.
•No Waiving or Hailing For Help: Nature instinctively forces victims to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water. 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.
•Eyes Appear Glassy / Empty
•Bodies Stay Upright in the Water: The victim will stay upright in the water because of the lateral arm pressing, but there is usually no supporting kick.

Holy crap, that video is terrifying.

Yes, it is absolutely terrifying. Please watch your kids closely at the pool this summer!

That was seriously upsetting to watch. Miraculously, the boy is ok. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4584114/amp/Horrifying-moment-five-year-old-boy-starts-drowning.html

Don’t leave your kids in the pool and go to the sauna!

OMFG he's LIFELESS BODY hits a woman and it still takes her a bit to realize he's almost dead. I can not believe how many people walked right past him. I also have a hard time believing he has no lasting effects from being oxygen deprived that long...

My thoughts exactly. I'm not sure what kind of pool this is but in a normal community pool I would like to think that someone would notice a child struggling well before that. Where the heck were that boys' parents? Where were the lifeguards?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Video of a 5yo drowning in a pool with several adults just walking by. Its terrifying and makes me sick to my stomach to see, but is also informative and really struck home to me just how easily something so horrible could happen.

It includes the 5 'real' signs of drowning:

-Head Tilted Back: The victim will tilt their head back to attempt to get air and breathe
•Mouth at Water Level: A drowning victim is trying to keep their mouth at water’s level to get air but has no time to yell for help because they are barely able to take in air. The mouth will bop up for air and back down under the water.
•No Waiving or Hailing For Help: Nature instinctively forces victims to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water. 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.
•Eyes Appear Glassy / Empty
•Bodies Stay Upright in the Water: The victim will stay upright in the water because of the lateral arm pressing, but there is usually no supporting kick.

Holy crap, that video is terrifying.

Yes, it is absolutely terrifying. Please watch your kids closely at the pool this summer!

That was seriously upsetting to watch. Miraculously, the boy is ok. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4584114/amp/Horrifying-moment-five-year-old-boy-starts-drowning.html

Don’t leave your kids in the pool and go to the sauna!

OMFG he's LIFELESS BODY hits a woman and it still takes her a bit to realize he's almost dead. I can not believe how many people walked right past him. I also have a hard time believing he has no lasting effects from being oxygen deprived that long...

My thoughts exactly. I'm not sure what kind of pool this is but in a normal community pool I would like to think that someone would notice a child struggling well before that. Where the heck were that boys' parents? Where were the lifeguards?

But as you can clearly see, no one notices him. I think they thought he was playing, or there was some kind of bystander effect going on. People didn’t recognize what he was doing as drowning. Very scary. I think in the comments it says his mom went to the sauna?

[Anonymous]

http://spotthedrowningchild.com

We all need to visit this site. It was a real eye opener for me when I watched the videos on it last year.

[Anonymous]

I “reported” a kid to the lifeguard yesterday. I was watching my 2 kids, and this other boy (7? 8?) was around us and swimming very poorly. “I can’t go there because I can’t swim.” And screaming at time to “give me the noodle because I can’t swim”.

I asked him where his grown up was and he said he didn’t know. So I flagged over the lifeguard to get him.

I couldn’t watch it, and he wasn’t going to drown on my time! Watching my kids takes every ounce of my mental stamina. I obviously would have helped him if he needed it. But he was SO needy that it scared me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There were an outrageous number of phones at the pool this weekend. If you have kids in the water, you have no business being on a phone.

In all the public pools parent are required to watch children, not rely on a life guard. These day and age it should be modified that watching means actually watching and not using devices so if someone is not watching a kid they should be not allowed at the pool. It is like with the car driving and being on the phone, you can not text and drive or use hand held devices, so says the law, so by the same taken pools should require a parent to actively monitor a child and not half assed.

[Anonymous]

All four of my kids have been lifeguards; youngest is a rising HS senior and is guarding and coaching this summer. On Memorial Day weekend my oldest, who is 25, and who guarded one summer on Cape Cod, was home and went to the pool while his sister was guarding. When they came home he commented, "Wow. A lot of parents of little kids with their eyes on their phones." Then he said to his sister, "You need to be ready to jump from the chair. "

[Anonymous]

Beyond the drowning, WHY WHY do we live on our phones? I am so tired of people living on their phones. You see parents ignoring kids in all kinds of places because of their phone. BE ENGAGED. Unless you are an on-call physician or something similar, stop being tethered to your phone.