Quote (Goomshill @ Jun 7 2022 07:10am)
Lifeguards are trained to be able to rescue without a flotation device, then they are given a flotation device and trained to have it with them, because it vastly improves the chances of surviving for both people. Police in Arizona are neither equipped nor taught for water rescue, much less water rescue at 40 yards out, without any life jackets, in front of a dam with its jetties and circulating currents. Even in areas where police do have basic equipment for water rescue, they are trained to not attempt to rescue people from areas with hazardous conditions, notably in front of dams or on thin ice. If you're within throwing range they can get a rope to you, but far out from shore the only thing they can do is shout encouragement from the sidelines. That's very much the case up in lake country after iceout
Definitely. Dams are seriously dangerous, as is a hole in the ice.
Dams are doable if you know what you're doing, and if some idiot didn't decide that to help the drowning person he would open the flood gates to lower the water.
One, it will never happen fast enough, and two, it will create a viscous undertow.
Also, I'm speaking from MY experiences. All of my parents children were AAU swimmers. Just in "practice" we would swim between 14 and 21 miles a day, depending on season.
About 7 miles in 1.5 hours. 2x a day in the winter, and 3x a day in the summer. 365 days a year, excepting only swim meets.
Your average lifeguard doesn't have that kind of ability.
Side note: That guy in the OP video couldn't swim. He was what we would've called "just a splasher".
Now this... is swimming...
This post was edited by Ghot on Jun 7 2022 05:38am
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