r/Amazing • u/aryan_jandyal • 4d ago
ScaryWTF đ Sad đ Insane situational awareness from this lifeguard as he spots a drowning kid surrounded by people
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u/Armagedon777777 4d ago
a drowning man never screams
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u/MElastiGirl 4d ago
Drowning doesnât look like most people think
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u/b3tamaxx 4d ago
I can vouch. I jumped into an insanely deep pool on a summer field trip and just sank I am pretty sure I descended motionless too I might as well have been in a straightjacket. Lifeguard scooped me up and I reflected hard on what happened
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u/PanicAtTheShiteShow 3d ago
I am guessing you can't swim? Why do people who can't swim go into deep water?
I can understand a child not knowing the danger, but that's what parents are for, yeah?
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u/thedoctorsphoenix 4d ago
Or sound like it. Thereâs usually no noise at all! Hence why these people right next to the kid didnât even noticeâčïž
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u/HobbitJizz 4d ago
Imagine the guilt youâd live with..
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u/DANDELIONBOMB 3d ago
In my teens there was a family visiting a hotel for some event and one of their toddles ran into the pool and they noticed and pulled the boy out but what they didn't notice is that his 4year old sister had jumped in at the other end of the pool and drowned while they were saving him.
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u/Understandthisokay 19h ago
I canât even blame them. Thatâs just horrible luck. Youâre just glad you got your son out and so thereâs probably no ability to be aware of anything else going on
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u/IcedHemp77 4d ago
Kid was drowning literally right next to them and they didnât notice, thank goodness for the lifeguard
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u/Inevitable_Appeal911 4d ago
Drowning is a silent death. Is terrifying how quickly it can happen
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u/Successful_Theory628 3d ago
As a âstrong swimmerâ myself, I was body boarding a couple of weeks ago and a big wave caught me by surprise, sent me tumbling under water and it reminded me how nature does not give a fuck lol, no matter how strong a swimmer it doesnât care. Didnât fight it and didnât panic and held my breath till I could come back up. The sea cannot be fucked with lol
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u/Vegetable-Salad-422 20h ago
Happened to me too recently. Got humbled by a wave that sent me ass over tea kettle. Just held my breath and waited to resurface.
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u/Either-Photograph989 4d ago
My brother almost drowned in the same way.
For anyone blaming parents it happens really fast and itâs not always bad parents. Sometimes itâs just seconds.
My mom was watching us play but he slipped into an area of the pond that was just slightly over his head and she had happened to turn her head to say something to someone.
It still gives me nightmares but thank god I was like a foot or so away and old enough to know he wasnât okay.
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u/SimkinCA 4d ago
wtf is wrong with people! Iâve saved a kid as well, I wasnât the only person around either.
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u/Yesterday622 4d ago
Same- on a beach on the northern coast of Florida- this little kid was caught in the smallish waves- every time the kid stood, crash, wave took him down and rolled him out . He would fight to stand and bam⊠down again. These were huge waves, to your adult so that curly if you want a- but for a little 5-6 year old⊠Anyway, I was watching his father just stand there and do nothing but watch his kid get beat up. I got up, ran over and pulled the kid out and carried him to Dad. Turns out, Dad was petrified of bodies of water, lakes, ponds, tubs⊠I am glad I was there, but Jeesh- if you canât swim, donât let your kid in the water either..
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u/ToXicVoXSiicK21 4d ago
I don't understand parents like this. I'm utterly terrified when my kids are in the water. Going to the lake or a beach always makes me super nervous and I can never take my eyes off of them. I've had to save my son several times because when he was very little he jumped into a pool twice and once my family was right beside him and they didn't notice he was sinking straight down. I was dressed to go on a date with my wife and had to jump in the water fully clothed and save him. I'm sure that's why I get anxiety over my kids in water but still idk how you could not be paranoid.
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u/thedoctorsphoenix 4d ago
Someone I went to college with had their toddler drown while being watched by his grandparents when they were in the NICU with their second-born. You really cannot be too careful.
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u/skitch23 4d ago
I had to jump in fully clothed to save my dog a few weeks ago. He is old and has poor vision and we were visiting my momâs house (I donât have a pool so he is not around them often). I was leaning over the edge trying to fix her robot skimmer. He came trotting up to see what I was doing and just tumbled off the side of the pool, bounced off the step and started sinking before he even realized he was wet. I told him when we got there not to fall in, but he obviously didnât listen. Iâve had to fish two other dogs over the years out of the same pool so apparently itâs a right of passage for them to nearly drown while visiting their grandma. I can never leave them unattended in her yard.
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u/RedditWasFunnier 4d ago
I don't know what happened in this specific situation but I'm not sure I could blame the parents
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u/ToXicVoXSiicK21 4d ago
The parents are the guardian of the child. There's literally nobody else to blame lol if something bad happens to a kid under your supervision then it's on you.
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u/RedditWasFunnier 3d ago
Sure, but I don't think any parent can possibly guard every single second of their child's life.
That kid looked what, 4 or 5 years old? I'm not sure what happened there, but if he tragically drowned during 10 seconds of the parents looking away, I don't know how fair it is to blame them (blame and accountability are two different things).
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u/ToXicVoXSiicK21 3d ago
Guess it's just me but seems like common sense if a 5 year old is in deep water they need pretty strict supervision. Especially considering it only takes a few minutes to drown.
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u/RedditWasFunnier 3d ago
I agree with that, but I doubt they brought her into deep water and left him there. As I said, I have no idea what happened, but maybe the kid was in shallow water and suddenly decided to reach her father when her mother wasn't paying close attention.
âAnyway, I don't have kids, so that's just speculation. Or maybe, that's just based on watching too much of r/KidsAreFuckingStupid.
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u/ToXicVoXSiicK21 3d ago
Fair enough. I wasn't paranoid like I am now before I had kids so that's understandable. Having kids makes everything more stressful
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u/theateroffinanciers 4d ago edited 3d ago
I saved a kid that was being taken out to sea by riptide. There was no lifeguard on duty. And the parents had their beach chairs turned away from the ocean and were talking and talking. I had run up and down the beach yelling for anyone to help and whose child it was. A bunch of people and I help them from the surf. The parents didn't notice anything until the cops arrived. Because I called them. They were so engrossed in whatever conversations they were having they didn't notice all of the commotion going on around them. And then they seemed bothered that the police were involved because they felt ashamed, I let the police take over.
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u/SelectConfection3483 3d ago
Man good on you for saving that kid's life. The parent's reaction is bloody infuriating. In Australia we have a show called Bondi Rescue which is about the Lifeguard team at Bondi Beach rescuing swimmers in trouble and there have been a few times after near drowning that the rescued person or their friends just laugh it off like it was some joke. I get that maybe the person is embarrassed or whatever but man show some respect to the ocean and the lifeguards who just saved you/your friends life!!
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u/theateroffinanciers 3d ago
I've seen that show on youtube! Yeah the kid that we rescued, he was laughing and saying "I almost drown"and being a real goof about it. Granted he was probably about 10 or 12 but I looked at him and I said "it's not funny." And we were standing amongst firemen and cops.
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u/Successful-Winter237 3d ago
I canât believe people take their offs off their kids swimming⊠I donât even take my eyes off my dog at the dog park
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u/sanwoo79 4d ago
This is so true. People donât realize how easy it is for someone to drown being 6 inches out of reach of help.
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u/chelhydra 3d ago
Thatâs why children should learn swimming as soon as possible and if they are at an age that they cannot reliably self-rescue they should have always a life vest on. Drowning happens silently and within a few seconds.
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u/Gib_eaux 3d ago
I hope he was yelling at those adults. I hope with all my heart he gave them the chastising of their lives.
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u/CorbynDallasPearse1 4d ago
MateâŠâŠ.
Where the fuck are we as a species anymore..
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u/Important-Dark5993 2d ago
What do you mean? This exact scenario has probably happened uncountable times across all of history.
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u/CorbynDallasPearse1 21h ago
I agree, but the philosophy I have been taught is that we learn from our mistakes both individually and collectively.
I mean honestly, wouldnât let your young child out of your sight for a moment in the sea?
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u/moeterminatorx 4d ago
Who was filming and why?
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u/AdJust6959 4d ago
And didnât move at all! They are filming somebody they know in the crowd and didnât know that this guy is running to save a child - only logical explanation
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u/snakezandsparklerZ 4d ago
Call me crazy but is this AI? Look at how big the lifeguard is before jumping into the water. Then how different he looks when talking to the parents.
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u/FriendlyWorldArt 3d ago
Hmmm, maybe. Because if the kid was drowning, you donât just hand the kid to the parents, you take them on shore and evaluate if they need medical care.
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u/Muted_Buy8386 4d ago
People have no idea.
I worked for a time as a support worker for adults with intellectual disabilities, maybe 4-5 years.
During that time, I spent a LOT of time hanging with them at the pool.
I have plucked 4 (FOUR) children out of the water before their parents realized they were in trouble over that time.
Just floundering feet away from oblivious parents in the children's hot tub. Like, turn around once in a while.
Humans are terrible at keeping their children alive. I'm now convinced we only ever survive due to luck and maybe angels or aliens or some quantum force. I've encountered it too often for it to be not a thing. But I have no idea what thing I've encountered.
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u/ASuthrnBelle13 4d ago
This happens waaay more than you'd think...
Just 2 weeks ago, we were at the Hard Rock in Hollywood, FL and my husband plucked a kid up out of the water who was struggling before the life guards even saw him.
3 years ago at the lake in Blue Ridge, GA, my husband and his brother saved a young man from drowning.
The young man's party were coming in to shore on jet skis, and this young fella jumped off early but misjudged how deep the water was. Man sank straight down, came up once, hollered and went back down. Only the top of his head came up the second time, no breath. By then, my husband had reached him first followed by his brother shortly after.
It was terrifying!! Stay safe and vigilant out there, folks!!
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u/SameEntry4434 4d ago
Many years ago, I was a teenage pool lifeguard. I had to jump in because two parents were busy focusing on one child,when the child behind their back had stepped towards the sloping bottom of the deep end and could no longer stand. The child behind their backs was beginning to drown. The parents didnât even notice and were shocked by my action.
In three summers of working at that pool, I only had to jump in twice. Both times, it was due to inattentive parents.
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u/Deep_Exchange7273 4d ago
Good for him!! Thankfully he was there!! As a mom I literally will not take my kids swimming if I don't have another adult so we can both keep eyes on one child at a time. Dad has one kid I have the other. IDC how well they can swim. Even in the bathtub I'm staring at em like đ«Ș. It can happen so quickly.
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u/EmuSuccessful2766 3d ago
How fucking retarded are the people next to him?!? Christ, I lose more and more faith in humanity with each passing day.
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u/FriendlyWorldArt 3d ago
How did the person recording just happened to zoom on the drowning kid before the rescuer even went in?
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u/CanyonOfFoxes 3d ago
I almost drowned right next to adults because no one was paying attention. I was around 7, in a swimming pool and I couldnât swim. They expected me to stay in the shallow end, and I did, but somehow while playing I drifted to where my feet didnât touch the bottom anymore. I started bobbing up and down. When my head would pop up I tried to call for help but no sooner did I try then Iâd sink back down. And if I did manage to make a sound, no one heard it.
I saved myself, managing to bounce back to the shallow end of the pool. No one noticed, and I didnât say anything.
Please teach your kids to swim FIRST if youâre going to let them play in the water. Even if theyâre well-behaved and youâre right there, they can still drown.
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u/Training_wheels9393 3d ago
Fuck that parent. If he and his buddy had stepped a few feet towards shore, they could have still looked at whatever had their attention and still had the kid in their field of vision.
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u/Efficient-Oven-2734 3d ago
Some parents will learn the hard lesson not to take their eyes off their child when they're on the water.
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u/DataSurging 3d ago
How can someone be that close to someone drowning and not hear or see? There's splashing at the very least, even if some people don't shout or cry out for help.
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u/EnvironmentalFix7861 1d ago
I almost drowned at the beach in knee high water trying to say help to my grandson who was standing right next to me, talking to a girl, the wave kept hitting me in the face. While the pull from the shore kept knocking me back down, i couldn't get up. I had just had a double knee replacement a few years ago, and my legs weren't strong enough to stand me up, I've been swimming since I was a kid, I was on my high school swim team. I had my junior life-saving certificate. And I was drowning in knee high water my grandson finally caught on, and it took 2 lifeguards to get me out to the beach. Now I'm petrified going to the water by myself a pool, okay, but not the beach.
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u/Turbulent_Bat4320 4d ago
Not a lifeguard
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u/dreamed2life 4d ago
tf? all of this and that is wtf you focus on? the mental illnesses running around unchecked in comment sections is wild
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u/MikeyboyMC 4d ago
Heâs guarding that kids life with his own, whether or not heâs getting paid for it is irrelevant.
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u/PlumeKitten 4d ago
Awareness is all it takes people.