Winnipesaukee Forum - View Single Post - Drowning does not look like you think it would

DickR · 07-13-2010, 08:04 PM

I sent the link to my daughter, previously a lifeguard at a waterslide park and at a beach. She replied:

"I saw this article the other day. It is true. You'd see it at the
waterpark. The kid with the big wide eyes just trying to keep his mouth
out of the water was the one you went in to get. That and at the beach it
was often the little tyke sitting in ankle deep water who would get knocked over
by a wave and then sit quietly wide eyed as other waves knock them around
and the mom's would sit and laugh and say " stand up, you're OK" and usually
we had to walk over and stand the kid up and you'd hear a gasp from them
when they were upright and they always started crying for momma. Many moms thought that the lifeguard had startled the kid and that is why they were
crying, so it was easier to not to try and explain that to them that their
child couldn't just stand up."

07-13-2010, 08:04 PM	#9
DickR Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Moultonborough Posts: 751 Thanks: 4 Thanked 259 Times in 171 Posts	I sent the link to my daughter, previously a lifeguard at a waterslide park and at a beach. She replied: "I saw this article the other day. It is true. You'd see it at the waterpark. The kid with the big wide eyes just trying to keep his mouth out of the water was the one you went in to get. That and at the beach it was often the little tyke sitting in ankle deep water who would get knocked over by a wave and then sit quietly wide eyed as other waves knock them around and the mom's would sit and laugh and say " stand up, you're OK" and usually we had to walk over and stand the kid up and you'd hear a gasp from them when they were upright and they always started crying for momma. Many moms thought that the lifeguard had startled the kid and that is why they were crying, so it was easier to not to try and explain that to them that their child couldn't just stand up."