Greetings from Finland. According to the news from the time, the mother had left the boy in the children's pool while she and her friend went into sauna for 10 minutes because they were cold. The mother had told the boy (who did not know how to swim) that he is not allowed to leave the shallow children's pool. But as soon as the mother left, the boy went into the deeper spa-pool. The boy was submerged for 4 minutes 36 seconds. He was lifeless for almost 3 minutes. The person who finally noticed the boy when he bumped into her lifted him up and started cpr. He was then transported to a children's hospital and he has recovered well. No permanent damage to his health has been found. The mother, a 44-year old Estonian citizen was prosecuted of negligence. She has stated that she is shocked from what happened, and that she has learned her lesson from it. She pleaded guilty, and was initially sentenced to prison for four months. The court said that a fine is not a big enough penalty for her. But since she had no criminal background she was sentenced to probation instead of jail time. She was also sentenced to pay 1500 euros (about 1554 dollars nowdays) of compensation to the boy from suffering and pain. The court also said that her actions were inconsiderate and that she was unconcerned about the child's health. The court said that there was a considerable risk of the child having serious, permanent damages or he could have died. The prosecutor was not happy about the sentence, and the case went to higher court, court of appeals. The court of appeals agreed with the prosecutor. They stated that although the mothers actions were mostly because of thoughtlessness, they also show a high level of guilt. She was sentenced to 10 months of probation. The mother said that because of the huge publicity the case got, the sentence should be shorter. The court of appeals stated that since her name has not been published, they won't take publicity into account when measuring the sentence. EDIT: the mother did not ask for money because the case went public. She wanted the sentence to be reduced (less probation time). I edited the part of the comment that was misleading.
@@Kwisatz_HaderachXIII It will be paid to an account the mother has no access to. Im not sure who gets to decide how to use that money, is it the father or the social services maybe. But the bottom line is, it is his money and the mother cant use it.
I can’t believe she had the audacity to ask for compensation regarding her sentence because of the publicity it got. Her name and face SHOULD have been published. People like that rescind their right to privacy when they commit such a selfish heinous act that should have resulted in the child’s death. It’s a miracle he survived. I almost hope he was adopted into another family. She doesn’t deserve or have the capacity to be his mother if after all of that and apparently feeling guilty, she selfishly was upset that the case got publicity. This type of thing SHOULD get as much publicity as possible to prevent it happening to any other children. Stupid selfish woman.
A few months ago, I watched this video. Today, I was able to save a child's life because of this video. It was the exact same situation: a pool, the child had gone into the deep area, and was kicking hard underwater. He was unable to keep his head above water even for a moment to yell for help. When I saw this happening, I immediately remembered the video and jumped in to help. 0 reaction from others... When I reached the child, he was too exhausted to move. Thankfully, he hadn't lost consciousness and was still fighting to not make a breath underwater. When I brought him to the surface, he took the loudest and deepest breath I had ever heard from a human being. It almost made me cry tho at that moment. Because I thought he was on his way out, and we would have to fight for his life. So kid is fine. Parents got their asses whooped(verbally). Tomorrow that boy will learn how to swim. You can add another soul to the countless ones you have saved by spreading awareness. You guys are the best!
That's exactly what I'm talking about in my comment! Thank you so much for your awareness of people around you. EVERYBODY should be paying attention to others like that. It's like helping someone choking, or how to react to a fire and smoke, or at least recognizing someone drowning and call for help. For me it's basic skill survival for life. You'll help yourself and others.
I believe it’s deferring of responsibility, power/authority structures in society lure people into a state of passive complicity. Yes lifeguards are trained to recognise these things, but also that’s what their focus is on I suppose, people in the pool aren’t actively going out of their way to think about spotting a dead person in the water, they’re just swimming
As a former lifeguard, I was in tears watching this. In the 20+ years since I was a certified lifeguard, I've saved 3 people (2 children and 1 adult) simply from being observant and paying attention. None of them drowned, but most likely would have if I hadn't acted. It's hard for me to even enjoy swimming at a public pool or beach with friends or family because I'm paying attention to everyone else in the water.
I do the same thing but it's not just in water. Being a nurse I am always watching people and what is going on.... So thankful this boy survived but this should have never happened.....❤
Even outside the setting of being in water, people should really learn to pay attention to their surroundings at least a little bit. Not only for others, but also their own security. I can understand recognizing drowning can be difficult without training, but once you've got someone floating face down in the water, this should start raising at least your attention...
These are good points, but I think the other issue we have in our society these days is the stigma of looking at someone else’s child, I feel like people are afraid to look at other people’s children in fear of been looked at like a predator, especially in a swimming pool where everyone wears less in the first place unless your a person that is trained and certified.
@@RexRex88 If you're trained, you only stare when there's a potential problem. Otherwise you are scanning ALL the children AND adults quickly in a pattern. It's something we were taught and trained to do. I've never once encountered a parent that thought I was being a creep.
As a mother with a 4 year old this was unbelievably hard to watch. I can’t imagine ever leaving my son alone near the water! He is afraid of the water and actually says “i don’t know how to swim” after watching this video i talked to him and we are going to do swim lessons come summer time! thank you for educating us! and i will now watch others more closely in the water after watching how silent this can be!
Who knows, maybe he will become a lifeguard one day, make some extra scratch, and help prevent something like this happening to someone else! One conversation can change the course of a little one's life.
Great decision! I believe every single human being, especially children, should learn how to swim at the earliest age possible. Regardless of whether you live by the ocean or in the middle of nowhere, miles from water. There is *always* risk of drowning if water is deeper than a few inches. As a vigilant and cautious person, I was bothered by this tremendously too. I would have been holding this boy within seconds of him going under.
It's an absolutely egregious example of the blindness of crowds. I've jumped off the tower to rescue a drowning kid stuck under an innertube who was literally clinging to his dads waist in a wave pool. The dad was clueless until I pulled his sons head above water. He broke down in tears after realizing how quickly the situation turned bad without him ever noticing. If you have kids and frequent a pool without a lifeguard, please take the class yourself and put the kids in swim lessons. Woody is 100% right. Just recognizing a distressed swimmer can take extraordinary amounts of practice, let alone preforming the actual rescue.
I grew up with a pool and swim like a fish, got certified as a lifeguard in high school. My wife is a very weak swimmer. I plan to make sure both my daughters get certified too, even if they never want to do the job.
Been in a similar situation. The dad of my friend was playing rough with us. At one point, he made the mistake to sit on my friend. I saw her panic and try to cry, but she couldn't make any noise. She could not breathe. For some reason, I became super calm, and told him she couldn't breathe and was crying. He got off in confusion, only to find out then just how much he fucked up. Thankfully she was okay. It lasted less than a minute, buy those seconds were horrifying.
I'm literally at tears here... holy shit man! Having drowned myself as a kid and saved by a lifeguard, this video hit me haaaaaard! The first thing I did with my kids was to put them through swim school, as soon as they began walking. Thank goodness the kid made it. THANK YOU GUS for bringing awareness to this.
From a former hotel worker, I must say thank you for sharing this and spreading awareness. I used to work at a hotel and I actually saw someone die in front of me from drowning. I was working the front desk that had a glass to look into the pool area next to me when a man jumped in, hit his head on the side of the pool, and just slipped under silently. By the time anyone noticed he was already too far gone even after being pulled out and worked on. Honestly, it was the most traumatic and life changing thing to ever happen to me and my life has definitely been shaped around it. People expect it to be dramatic and loud when in reality it's a silent killer that goes unnoticed. People just go under and you just don't notice till it's too late.
There's no way you could have known from that location. In this case, people were inches from the child, in the water with him already. I think at a certain point it becomes negligence, but in your case it was literally impossible to know. I understand the trauma but don't let yourself feel guilty.
I worked at a water park as a teen & to the company’s credit, this was drilled into our minds & we actually were properly trained. Think (opposite of action park)! The lazy river and wave pools are super susceptible to a kid going under and nobody noticing! Almost every lifeguard working in those two areas would have at least one rescue each summer. They would even show videos like this to scare the reality into us.
@@dwmueller76 I had friends who worked at an indoor water park. They used a black flat silloet of a human to test them. They would put it in the water and you had very little time to spot it. Even being all black my friends said it was hard to spot. I guess it looked like a shadow. Only one friend got fired for not seeing it in time. He is not the most attentive and observant person..
When his body spasmed violently right before passing out, I was sure he wasn’t going to make it. Thank the universe that he survived this. I fully agree with everything you’re both saying on this.
4.25 minutes...!? Wow, the fact he survived is just as shocking. I don't know if I would have noticed if my eyes weren't locked on him for more than a few seconds. These videos make you think, you would never believe someone could drown surrounded by people if you hadn't seen it, now I've seen it twice via your videos..
Well... It would seem "The rule of 3's" for survival might serve well as a guide to when someone MUST be in dire need of help, but isn't the basis for giving up hope. Perhaps, it's true, "The only correct answer IS hope." in such situations. Nobody's dead "for sure" in other words, until a proper medical professional TELLS YOU that they're dead... "for sure". ;o)
This is absolutely heartbreaking. I'm like Gus when it comes to watching others. Anytime I go to a pool or if I'm at a hotel pool, I always keep an eye out for others. I'm just so happy that the kid made it. I can't imagine what it would have been like for him. This is why it's so important as parent to keep an eye on children, even if they're not your own. Thank you Gus and Woody for educating us!
I agree with you 100%. I’m a people watcher and very observant, especially when it comes to a child who may be in distress. I always say, it takes a village…
@@RandomComment6 I'll disagree on the village part; it takes a parent. But, when the parents have, by action or through inaction, abdicated their responsibility, it is good for our species and society that people like you stand ready to pick up the slack.
I'm literally shaking. Not really but very close to it. Not in anger but in like panic. That was super hard to watch. I have lifeguard training but I've never been a lifeguard. It was just training I wanted. I'm not saying I would have noticed if I was there. Not if I was just like swimming in the pool. However I would like to think I would notice if he was out in front of near me etc. Within my general view. I generally do keep my eyes open while swimming. I've had plenty of situations where I'm like that person is underwater or looks like they are struggling. But as I investigate I realize they are fine. But since we know from the start of this video that a kid will be drowning. It's really hard to watch. It's like how can they not all notice. But it's a call to reality. I'm struggling like how can these people not notice. But at the same time I fear being one of them myself. But I just wanted to jump though the screen so badly. If this ever happens around me in real life. Please let me notice. It's videos like these that keep me even more alert in life. The fact he lived is unbelievable.
This is possible because people dont know nothing about their own body. And it will get worse. As a kid you have to test your physical abilities. But when you have no connection to your own body, it's much harder to see what b is going on. They (people in Video)do not detect false pattern in movement. The internet will have killed that abilities one day
Seems like not my kid, not my problem. As an older single man, I keep my space from children and try to keep my eyes to myself as well. I don’t want to be accused of being too close or too interested in children.
When my daughter was 4 yro we moved from NY to AZ and all of a sudden pools were everywhere and my daughter fell in love with being in the water. Her enthusiasm with pools scared me. I immediately started teaching her how to swim, float and hold her breath underwater. She wanted to swim without her arm floaties but I told her it wasn't going to happen until she could swim the length of the pool and back as well as dive down the deep end, retrieve a quarter from the bottom and bring it back to the pool deck. Of course I was right beside her for every attempt she made until she could complete the entire course. So glad I did because by the time she was 5 we went to my friends house. My daughter went looking for my friends 3 1/2 yro and found her on the bottom of the pool. In between screaming for us, she jumped in, brought the baby back up to the surface and was struggling to get that baby up the steps and out of the pool. The baby would not have survived if my daughter hadn't found her when she did. I've had many proud moments concerning my daughter but nothing has ever topped that.
@@tookitogo I give all the credit to her. At 4 yro she found a desperate passion that a lot of adults never find. And it was that passion that terrified me into action. If circumstances hadn't happened the way they did when she got older, most likely, the world would have known her name through the Olympics. Sadly, that was not to be for her. However, she didn't sit around feeling sorry for herself. She, almost immediately, found a new passion in music and learned how to play the flute flawlessly. She went on to win numerous awards and established a beautiful musical career as well as teaching underprivileged kids how to appreciate music of all genres and how to play various woodwind instruments. Many proud moments.😁
@@beepbopboop7727 Thank you but I think it's more like she's an amazing daughter. I was and am not a trained swim teacher. As a matter of fact I only had 2 or 3 lessons myself when I was about 7 years old. That really is all the training knowledge I had. It took me much longer to get to the level she accomplished in a week. She literally was like a fish that had lived in the water its entire life. With her level of maturity she made me wish I could be like her when I grew up. 😁
This breaks my heart! As a former certified lifeguard, I still have the habit of scanning an area where people are swimming, because you are right, not everyone is trained to notice drowning. This should be taught more often than lifeguard training, if more people knew the signs so many accidents could be prevented.
100% agree. how long did you lifeguard for and did guard indoor, outdoor, or both? I personally have only guarded indoor for 6 years 3 at a YMCA and two at another local indoor pool. yeah this pissed me off I can't believe not a single person in that pool or on the deck notice that this was absolutely preventable and it breaks my heart too know the parents had to find out their kid died because of obliviousness and a lack of awareness. as a fellow lifeguard,well, ex-life guard I salute you.
Yep. I mentioned elsewhere I nearly drowned like this kid. I was swimming after my brother (eldest who knew how to swim) and we were kind of racing and when we got to the deep it just seemed to get harder. I panicked and was flailing just like that kid, but I had my eyes open and saw the bottom. I exhaled, sank, and walked on the bottom a few steps to push myself up. I was vomiting water when I breached and nearly passed out clinging to the side of the pool. When I'm around a public pool I make sure I'm aware of my surrounding. When the kids, even if they are with their parents, are swimming past me, I watch them to see if they are struggling and will often just put my arm out right in front of them, so they grab it if they need. I make eye contact with who I think is the parent and give the motion of a thumbs up/down pointing at the kid. They usually motion back or come over, but I avoid yelling to distract the kid. I've noticed that kid is usually trying to impress their parents will often struggle to the point of exhaustion and then they sink like rocks. I've only had to do this a handful of times, but I'm left almost speechless every time. I learned to swim the hard way, like many, but be damned if my parents weren't at least around to make sure I wasn't dead. There was only one time they couldn't save me and I was just lucky af to get out of a rip tide. So while I agree, life guard training is great! However, people just need to be aware and have common sense, which is actually not that much effort.
My dad was a surfer and he trained me well, my knuckles were white i was holding such a fist, at 6 years old i would have been able to spot this kid and help. Makes me want to scream, I am the older cousin to countless little twerps, and there has been times where parents have left me in the pool with too many, ive had to be awful and scream at them to get out of the pool right now, so that i could get out find and tell the parents off/ ask for someone else to help because i wasnt able to keep my eye on all of them at once + have them climb over me. I think i was 16 and telling parents how they shouldnt be putting their children in danger and it wasnt fair to rely on me completely, they were all under 10 and 80% of them unable to swim I wasnt comfortable leaving unattended in the water without support from sinking. Dad told me afterwards he was watching me like an absolute hawk the entire time :), he was proud of me getting them out and finding help, it felt awesome to know he was there the whole time just incase I needed him. 1/4 of a century old and he still doesnt like me going in the pool or ocean by myself though lol, water is a cruel mistress, I think its unbeilevable how litle people know about general survival, cold, fire, water, humans. We should be taught in schools.
My first paying job was as a pool lifeguard and this was absolutely excruciating to watch. I'm literally crying right now, even though I know he survived. Every word you spoke was true. Drowning is silent. It's stealthy. The vast majority of people don't recognize it when they see it. That said, the mother wasn't even [redacted] THERE, which utterly infuriates me. Parents, if your child is in the water, whether he/she can swim or not, WATCH YOUR CHILD. Don't go off to the spa or whatever, STAY CLOSE. Talk to them every minute or two 'how are you doing?' 'are you having fun?' Make sure they're okay. That is YOUR CHILD and you have ONE JOB. Do it!
I didn't react much while watching the clip (besides frustration) but.. hearing you say he survived.. I just began to cry. I am so relieved to hear that! Though knowing how often this happens to other children (and even adults) is still just so heart breaking... My mom was saved from drowning once when I was a kid and she knew how to swim! It was at a river beach though and she got sucked into a small hole in the ground that pulled her under enough that she couldn't get up. Thankfully a man saw her cry for help as she went down and he literally yanked her from the water. this is another reason why i stay on land and watch under water content from the safety of my home thanks to cool peeps like y'all. (:
When I was like 7 years old I almost drowned in a public pool full of people. I was rescued by another child who was about my age. He floated over to me on his donut, grabbed me, and took me to the edge of the pool. No adult noticed, and in fact, my mom didn't find out about that until I was an adult and I brought it up. If anyone wonders, the reason I was alone in the deep end was because I wanted to go down the slide on the deep end and my older brother told me he'd catch me, by the time it was my turn, and I had come down the slide, my brother had become distracted by a girl. My mother would have never left me alone in a pool, and I would have never gone to the deep end without permission because even though I can swim, I was not a strong/confident swimmer as a kid and I think I just panicked when I came down and my brother wasn't there.
It literally took his body BUMPING INTO SOMEONE for them to realize what was going on. The situational awareness was zero... I understand you're relaxing at a pool, but come on, there are kids there. That mother learned a tough lesson that day. So glad he made it!
Well, i used to float like that face down on purpose back when i was a kid. Could do it for 5 minutes with my eyes closed, it was something really relaxing. The less movement, the less you think, and the slower your heart, the longer you can keep your breath. I even used to exhale half my breath and sit at the bottom of the pool for a few minutes just looking up and around. So yea, you really can't know what someone is up to without obvious signs of struggle. Now granted, there have been times i have been bothered by others while doing these things because of them thinking something is wrong, but over years it's like 2 or 3 times i think. So yea, most people don't wanna bother others, there is also the stigma side of it, as it could be taken wrongly to be watching others at a pool, let alone kids, unless you are lifeguard, so people just block their perception to others around them and relax basically...
I mean the guy and woman were looking away near the end of the clip their so they couldn't have seen anything. Only when the kid bumped into her she turned around and helped.
You know, it's a good thing you guys cover these tough topics. How many people are more informed across a variety of dangers and risks because of you guys? It's possible you've already saved lives through your informative videos.
I always generally watch others when I swim with them because I'm usually the best swimmer in the group but I never knew drowning could be so silent. Without this video I would have never learned, now I know that I need to watch out for silent waters instead of splashing waters next time I am with my friends or family swimming.
towards the beginning when people noticed the kid they most likely thought he was having fun spinning around and such, but towards the end when he was trying to reach the edge to people as they move away I mean you can't be that oblivious, it is clear as day what is going on at that point. There is no way they did not see the kid floating there for roughly 2minutes in a small pool, they literally were at arms length....in spite of everything, I am just glad the kid survived.
Think most thought the kid was playing around. We used to do the dead mans float when we were kids. Think it also has something to do with the lighting in there. Seems like most of the lighting is coming from insided the pool, which is going to cause weird shadows and dead (pardon the pun) spots.
@@chrisd2p2 that’s not good enough and honestly we shouldn’t be making excuses for them, this child was clearly in trouble and they went out of their way to not help
So glad you've publicised this issue. Believe it or not I was 49 before I realised that people drown quietly. Not flailing and calling for help. It's terrifying and we really need to educate everyone from a young age about this
My boyfriend drowned a year before I met him, he was resuscitated and came back thankfully. He now watches our kids so closely around water and he notices the second it’s off
This was horrifying to watch. I did not know how upsetting this would be. The level of obliviousness that took place in this pool was shocking. As a parent, I am never in a pool without watching other children, even if they are not my own. I am always looking out for people in the pool as a natural response to being a parent and a caring person. We live in Florida and made sure that we got our kids proper swim lessons with safety being the number one priority. I also never left my kids alone in a pool without my self or another capable adult present until they were over 13 years old and had shown complete competence and safety. Some people may say that that is overkill, but I would rather be safe than ever get a phone call that something happened to my child or any other children in my care.
One of the perks of living in Australia near the coast is that most of us know how to swim. We get taught at school how to swim even in situations like flash flooding where they get you to jump in the pool with heavy clothes and boots on. We are also taught rescue strokes to help someone who is struggling. I'm so happy this kid survived, we have so many situations from tourists drowning in our beaches because they don't know how to swim and we have strong rips here too. This video was one of the toughest ones to watch.
Same where I am on the southeast English coast, but far too many tourists from London and other cities drown because they only learned to swim (not very strongly) in a pool, and then get caught completely unawares by waves and tide. Sometimes I think children having swimming lessons actually contributes to the number, because they have confidence that they "can" swim. Especially when their parents are non swimmers who don't know the danger, which is very common in the poor and minority communities who make up the majority of drowning victims 😢
This is crazy. How can they not see he’s drowning/drowned? I’ve been a swimmer my entire life, and I can’t understand that lack of care and paying attention. Unreal.
We have a neighborhood pool... the amount of kids I have saved because their parents were glued to their phone is infuriating. No, I'm not a lifeguard, I'm just usually the only other adult who is in the pool with their kid. The fact that THREE adults were not only in the pool, but looking at him as he was clearly struggling to stay above is insane. I am so glad that boy survived, but I hope his mother faces serious charges. Ridiculous.
God bless you for being vigilant. It was infuriating to see the 2 grown men, 1 standing there watching the boy struggle and then the guy next to the wall swimming away when the boy reached for him. Poor boy must have been so terrified. Thank God he lived.
You're ridiculous. It's not their job to watch some random kid swimming. If you really are so experienced at saving people obviously you should know how hard it is to recognize. I'll tell you what tho. If some little shit kid tried grabbing me in a pool underwater I'd probably swim the hell away.
I had to look at the comments to make sure the kid survived before watching. To make sure he made it. Drowning isn't always loud. Drowning can be silent. I've had two events where I was lucky enough that someone noticed I was in trouble. The first was when I was JUST learning to swim. I didn't thrash, I didn't struggle. I literally just sank to the bottom of the twelve foot pool and stared upwards to the ceiling. There was a strange calm that time that came over me that I've never since experienced again. I was lucky the instructor finally noticed and dove down for me. The second time was when I got caught in the waves and I was just too young and too weak to fight. My sister figured what was happening immediately and saved me, but my father couldn't tell at all and thought everything was okay. He was staring right at me and thought I was just playing around. People NEED to educate themselves on what it looks like when someone is drowning. I was horrified to watch all the adults around him just ... Walk past and ignore him. That poor boy must have been so terrified.
When is drowning ever loud. Drowning means they’re under water and can’t swim so they can’t yell or anything that would require getting your mouth above water.
So glad he survived. Information is power. If your an adult….. and you have kids. Train. Protect our kids. When I’m at a pool I’m the lifeguard, I take that responsibility personally. Watch all children in the water. Thanks for showing this. Y’all are awesome
Thanks for some reason I've watched like 50 of these videos on this channel. And I keep forgetting both of there names. In truth I never really remembered either to begin with. But I have a feeling that after reading your comment I will at least remember Woody now! I'm just horrible at names. I sometimes need to read or write them or hear someone else talk about a person. To commit it to memory. But I still don't know the other guys name? Wait is it Gus? Woody and Gus? Once I hear the name Woody I feel like Gus sounds familier. Yes I think I see Gus being used in other comments. Is that not terrible of me? lol I think I finally know there names now though. Thank you Hanood.
Me too! I hold him in such a deep respect. He’s so kind and caring about everyone including animals most people don’t care about. So much respect for woody!
I'm crying I literally am bawling. As a first responder and emergency room employee I am just shocked I worked with drowning victims specifically minors and this was just horrific
This is why I have a hard time at public pools. I get hyper vigilant watching others and can't enjoy it. I have already had to do cpr on one drowning victim while off duty and the thought of that happening again while I am there fills me with paniced dread. Teaching someone to at least be comfortable in the water and to float is one of the greatest things you can do for them.
Swimming lessons are mandatory at most primary schools in australia, 1 day a week for 2 months of lessons starts second year so 6 years old and again every 2 years. I think you have to then sign up after 10 years old if you want to continue to go into swimming sports and stuff.
Thank god I went to a great public pool when I was a kid in the 90’s I jumped into deep in and couldn’t swim. (All my friends were). A life guard noticed right away; and pulled me out of the 10 ft after I didn’t come up from bottom and took in a ton of water; definitely saved my life. Now I swim 2 hrs a day in public pool. Lol. I always keep an eye out for kids in the pool.
A few months ago my nephew almost drowned in a jacuzzi. He was surrounded by a lot of of people and no one noticed. He made no sound at all. Thankfully his mom noticed and jumped in but it made me realize just how fast something like this can happen without anyone noticing
These types of videos are so hard to watch but I feel a weird sense of obligation to see videos like these and learn from them. Doesn't stop me yelling at the screen for somebody to help though. So thankful that kids are so resilient!
I've never cried so hard just watching this. I am a first time mom and I couldn't bear the thought of any child going through this and no one helping. This is so heart breaking.
My oldest (6 year old) has had swimming lessons and I still watch him even when I have to split my attention with my toddler. If I want to go to the sauna or hot tub, I make sure my husband or a friend is able to watch my kids. I don't trust strangers to be aware or even act to help.
As a lifeguard and rescue diver, I fortunately have not had such an incident. However, it is pointed out at every training session that most swimmers, including children, drown silently and do not lash out in panic. Therefore, it is very good that you bring this video. Better to be wrong once and check if the swimmer is OK than to act too late.
my cousin Christopher Thompson drowned in the Hicksville ohio public school pool while a life guard was on duty, the pure negligence in this video reminds me of the trauma my family had to go through. So sad. Im so glad for the family that he lived.
When I was a kid I almost drowned in a hotel pool. I wasn’t a good swimmer and started going under. Within seconds I was fighting for my life. I felt I was going to go under for the last time when I yelled. I went under and a lady grabbed me and moved me to where I could reach. I think she might have saved my life 🙏
Geez, am SO glad the kid survived. That was rough to watch.. it is unfortunate that movies/TV shows have almost trained us to view drowning in the exact opposite way it happens in real life
This is absolutely shocking. More shocking than the boy drowning was the how he slipped by so many people. This just makes me hyper aware of everyone around me while in a body of water. Thanks guys.
I'm so relieved he survived - it was feeling too long and too hopeless. I can't believe it took forever for someone to take action, because it appears he was noticed a few times but who knows what these people were thinking. I've had two near drownings myself. First time, my dad was momentarily distracted so my brother took advantage (he's evil, btw) and kept hovering over me on a floatation bed so I couldn't surface. I was in the shallow end but I just didn't have the strength to push him off the bed. I had to swim to the pool edge and slither myself up as close to the wall as I could which pushed him away eventually. Second time was when I was in a wave pool for the very first time. Despite my friend telling me exactly what to expect and how to 'bounce' the waves, I was completely out of sync and I was trying to surface right when the full height of the wave was over me. I really thought I was going to die this time, had the life flashes, and was basically in the process of accepting it. Thankfully, my friend's dad was right by us and was being hyper-aware because he knew of my inexperience with wave pools. He was able to pull me up at the right time and kept me in sync for the rest of the wave cycle. Now, this pool WAS heavily lifeguarded but even they didn't notice the distress I was in. I'm really glad I didn't lie and say I was good in wave pools.
I really hope your brother didn't really understand what he was doing and not actually trying to murder you, that's so sick, sorry you have a family member lije that. Water really can be terrifying and those wave pools specially dangerous for unexperienced children.
Everyone needs to watch this... Do Not Take This Vidoe Down!!! People need to see how easy it can happen. The distraction and unawareness is way more common then people could imagine! Happy ending too!
I normally just sigh at content warnings but this one really got me. It probably hits the amygdala so profoundly because, at 12 years, I pulled an ~8yo from the pool. He was still barely conscious but I rolled him onto his side and he coughed out the water while the "lifeguard" who had been flirting with someone instead of performing his appointed function, suddenly took note. That was my very first time of filing a formal complaint against an authority figure. I have to disagree with you about NOT letting children watch. Mine are both in the single-digits and I fully plan on having them watch, in proper context of swim safety, before the weather warms enough next year to get back to the water.
I used to float like that in pools, ocean, etc to get my breath hold up as a kid. One day a lifeguard was blowing his whistle, and I was in the zone oblivious, he pulled me up 5 seconds later, and explained what he had witnessed in the past and how I truly frightened him. So he asked if I’m going to do it moving forward, keep my thumb up while floating. This was in the giant wave pool at adventure island, with hundreds in at any time. But he spotted me and was in the water in seconds. This was super painful to watch, now I know the trauma I put on that guard playing around. As I got older I learned the most obvious reason as well, so others know you are still conscious or not, but I was a kid. God bless lifeguards, every pool should require one.
Years ago my family was at a public pool that while it had lifeguards was severely overcrowded. I don’t clearly remember this because I was so young but I have heard multiple family members tell very similar stories about this day. All I really know for certain is that a child went under the water, and in the crush of people no lifeguard saw it. Thankfully much like Gus my father was paying attention to the people around us and saw this kid go under and not come up, and was able to save the kid quickly enough that the child never lost consciousness. We left shortly after and our family never went back to that pool, which closed shortly after. These tragedies can happen so quickly but if everyone were to pay a bit more attention to what’s going on around them, these tragedies might not be as frequent or as severe.
Man this is tough to watch.. so many people , but no one noticed or cared.. had something similar happen at my local swimming pool a couple of years ago and the kid passed away sadly. Proper swimming and rescue technique is definitely something that should be taught from a young age. We luckily got the option to do rescue classes (for free) at school
@@CrowBarActual yea I agree I don't think 'no one cared' I myself am in the healthcare field and didn't realize that drowning looked like this as I haven't seen it myself. If I was at a pretty busy hotel pool on vacation & was tending to my kids or speaking to my husband I can't say I 100% would have noticed this child either. His head is under water & he can't yell for help and it did look like he was just doing front flips and swimming at a glance, of course with the full video you can tell as we are all focused on him but if I were there and not paying attention fully I see how it could be missed. I am a mother though so I do pay more attention that these people did I am sure so I may notice something not quite right but it was also night time it seems so that likely didn't help either. Poor child though, sad his mother was at the spa and not aware of where her child was. 😟 Glad he made it though!
@@pete5516 Have you ever been to a public swimming pool with kids? It's absolutely normal for kids to spin around under water and even play floater. It's not obvious what happens here if you merely take a brief glimpse at the kid. I doubt that pool is filled exclusively with idiots or sociopaths. Odds are all of them have simply been unaware the kid struggles.
And to be fair every time he was in some peoples line of view the way he was moving just looked like he was swimming. Then you get to the end and it’s like wtf
Tough to watch - so happy he is okay. This video is an important reminder to check on those around you. I try do it with every diver I encounter whether in my group or not. 👌
If I don't see a kid with the head out of the water at least once every 30 seconds I'd assume drowning. It's better to check than to have this happen. It could have been fatal.
That's so tough to watch. This is absolutely something everyone needs to know and be able to recognize. It's so unbelievably easy for kids to drown in what seems like a safe water level. This is why 5 gallon buckets have a drowning warning on them.
and yet the Finnish govt prosecuted the mother for not being there to save her child but none of the other people. if they couldnt be expected to know if the child was in danger how could they Legally* expect the mother to know
@@Jeremy_the_unfallible_n-a in the US, you commonly can't swim in a pool alone unless you're at least 14. It's ultimately the parent's fault for letting that happen, and strangers cannot be expected to fill that role. Even if they knew the kid was drowning (let's say they're at a not so calm ocean beach instead of a pool), they have no duty to assist. I'm sure they would have had they been more aware. It's a very unfortunate event 😕
@@Jeremy_the_unfallible_n-a that I think would come down to a jury and either video or eyewitness testimony. Very likely she still would have been convicted because like I said it's ultimately her responsibility. If the child can't stay above the water in any part of the pool, there'd definitely be questions about why she wasn't monitoring closely enough. Did the child usually go underwater when swimming? If not, why didn't you intervene? Accidents happen of course but pools are heightened risk, especially when unguarded
When I'm in the water, I enjoy myself as much as anyone else but I still keep a watch out for everyone else in the water I can see. The amount of kids and even a few adults I've helped or even pulled out that were in trouble is insane. It dosnt take much effort just to keep an eye on other swimmers around you. When I was 13, and was swimming for the local county team one of the girls, who obviously was an amazing swimmer, could literally swim miles. Had a seizure in the pool, everyone else was focused on thier training because they knew everybody in the water were great swimmers but that dosnt help in a sudden medical situation. I bumbed into her seconds after she went under as I was following her up the pool, so I got her to the side pretty quick. I was also part of the Friday nights life saving club at the same pool. From that moment on, I've always kept an eye on those around me in the water and wished others would do the same for me.
That hurt my heart, so sad to see. I can recognise that he’s struggling When I take my nieces and nephews swimming, it’s hectic, I’m watching all of them all at once, ready to act, and I’m watching everyone else’s too
Woody, I agree. I was a professional lifeguard for several years, a competitive swimmer for a decade, and loved water ever since childhood. I always wanted to be underwater just tooling around, floating underneath and facedown just enjoying the water. Watching this kid, I would not have necessarily recognized that he was drowning until he stopped moving completely. It honestly looked like he was just playing. I think your point about essentially “pattern recognition” is spot on-people can look without seeing, and see without recognizing a problem. Every one of us could have been the person who stood there in our own mind while he floated by. We should all take this as a lesson to be vigilant, and if you’re not sure if someone is ok, check!! I’ve had people tap me to make sure I’m ok when I’m just floating facedown enjoying the water, and I’ll never be offended. If I ever needed help, they would have saved my life.
As a preteen I had a much younger girl start drowning in the pool with me. Luckily her dad knew what to look for (just bobbing up and down without really being able to breathe, nothing histrionic, no splashing, just very quiet). He had to giver her mouth to mouth and everything. I've never been able to forget that. It's scary now too in this climate of paranoia that we're afraid to do *anything* with someone else's kid because what if their parent decides we're a creep? So we don't even watch them.
That was hard to watch but so important to share, huge thanks to you both for what you do. Had a close call with my daughter when she was 3 or 4 in a pool, happens so quickly and silently and is so easy to miss, when my girl went under there were 5 of us within a couple of meters of her and no one noticed, thankfully my wife spotted her on the bottom, yelled at me and I ducked down with my 1.5yr old and pulled her out, was extremely happy to have 2 screaming kids at the side of the pool after one of the scariest moments I've had. Thanks again and much love from NZ. Cheers.
When I was 9 or 10 I was at a hotel swimming. I'm a literal fish and have been swimming since I popped out of my mom. While I was swimming around I noticed this other girl a little younger than me. She just looked like she was swimming out of control doing flips and I just felt like something was wrong. So I went down and got her and her parents immediately rushed over and pulled her out. I always wondered if she was okay and I was just overreacting or if she actually needed help. Better safe than sorry. But by her reaction and her parents... she wasn't okay and I'm glad I did what I did.
As for people ignoring him when he was completely not moving, I'm not sure if anyone brought it up, but you guys have to remember that some kids do that for fun. We used to play dead in the pool and just float to see how long we could hold our breaths. So, if I did not see a kid struggling and then go lifeless, and just saw them floating, I think my default thought would be that that is what they are doing. But I'm glad I watched this so that I won't make that assumption again, and not be worried about messing up their record to check up on them.
I agree. My kids love doing this! I probably wouldn’t have noticed because I’d be busy watching my own kids and, if I glanced over, I would have thought this kid was doing the same thing. And I would assume his guardian was watching him. Now, I’m going to be trying to watch all the kids!
I would have thought it was some shit head kid thinking they were funny trying to scare an adult grabbing at my leg. But you are giving too much credit to even think they even saw him. You're watching this as almost a birds eye view. The lighting is not perfect in this and when your head is at water Level good luck seeing a kid a couple feet to the right of you
I always admire how you guys discuss such a topic or video because of education. You never want to exploit the drama for views, just pure education. You guys are amazing.
Really appreciate this video to demonstrate how easily this can happen even with a room full of people. It's harsh but sometimes it can take an example like this to get people to realize the importance of swim preparedness and being vigilant in these situations. Much appreciated.
You guys would be surprised how unattended some kids are. I've almost died in this exact same way; a cousin noticed me and had to pull me out and save me. My mother and some extended family never knew because they weren't watching me swim alone in the pool in the backyard.
Tough to watch, but also so important for people to see. I teach preschool and everytime we get towards the end of the school year I start sending out water safety info to parents. In my region, someone almost always drowns the first warm weekend of spring because all the water is still cold and fed by snowmelt. A few years ago, a super athletic teenager with strong swimming skills didn't wear a life jacket and drowned in the river due to shock from the cold.
That just broke my heart. 😭 I have young ones and I am always on high alert around water. Thanks for sharing and commenting. Hopefully this will cause greater awareness and save lives.
I had to look away because I had no idea how long he was going to be under water. I am a huge advocate for safety in all scenarios, but especially with pools! So thankful he survived, but I’m sure he has trauma to recover from as well. I could feel the desperation! Thank you for spreading awareness.
i love watching your video's guys , you are always great in the info you give and help you supply to all diver's and none driver's, but this video REALLY got to me, i am not ashamed to admit this but i have just spent the last 5 hours crying my eyes open over it. as a 43 year old father , i can not even begin to imagine the pain that poor little soul went though before what happened , and my heart goes out to all the people that love him, "sorry if some people hate me for saying this " but i can not under stand what was more important to the people that were ment to be watching him , as a parent/carer i know first hand you 100% always ALWAYS have a eye on a child no matter were you are or what you are doing. And it being a pool means it should have been at the top of there minds. I am soooo happy he made it, but he should never have been un-watched in the first place.
I think a good way to summarize Woody's point would be to say that people aren't looking for someone drowning when they're at the pool and they'll easily pass over someone who is at a glance
Yes. I am not there to watch someone else's kid. The number of times some e little kid has bumped into me or grabbed my leg in a pool thinking they were funny is many. I probably would have just swam away
That was horrific! The amount of people that were completely oblivious. That’s one of my fears and when I’m in a pool and kids are going under it always gives me such anxiety and I watch till I see them come back up but you can’t watch everything and minutes go by quick. I know I watch my child like a hawk but I might be so preoccupied with my own child that I wouldn’t notice others floating around me. Thanks for sharing this because it will make me even more cautious. I’m going to share this video so other parents are more aware hopefully.
This is terrifying, and it hits a close spot for me, since a similar thing happened to me. When I was about 7-8 years old, I had an incident while playing in the river with my parents that nearly took my life (suddenly fell into a hole in the ground, my father miraculously saved me). I didn't know how to swim, and I realized how scary water can be, so I decided I wanted to try and learn to swim. I went to take swimming lessons. I was still learning the basics, I still had no ability to stay afloat on my own (plus, I was noticeably scared, given my previous experience), so I was using a noodle to stay afloat. The thing slipped away from my hands, and I immediately started to plummet down to the bottom of the pool. I thrashed desperately, moved around as much as I could, trying to scream, etc. Nobody noticed. The pool was full of other kids, there was an instructor, some parents were watching, yet nobody noticed anything. I'm not sure how long I spent underwater, but it was long enough that I honestly thought that was it. It's just so scary, that moment of chaos. The place can be packed full, yet when you need it the most, you're on your own, everyone around you is oblivious. Thank you for spreading awareness regarding these situations. I feel like in my head, I was making a huge ruckus while trying to stay afloat, but just as you said, in reality, these things can go way more unnoticed than they should. This information can save lives. Additionally, I'd like to thank you for all the awesome content that you upload as well. My near-drowning experience made me develop a strong psychological aversion to water, even having water on my face feels extremely uncomfortable, and everything related to going underwater simply feels like nightmare fuel. You guys have helped me get over some of those fears, and learn about things I'd otherwise never discover on my own, so thank you, keep it up, you guys rock!
This is the worst thing I've ever seen. As a father I am SHOCKED at the reactions around that poor little boy. I guess maybe they were worried about intervening and the parent's getting weird? They didn't notice how long he was under water? I don't know but i am shocked. Every time I've been near water with my kids I am in the water RIGHT there with them and constantly watching. SO relieved to hear he survived but this is still just AWFUL. I can tell you as someone who has drowned, it is the scariest thing I've ever experienced and can't imagine being so young while experiencing that. My heart just can't handle these sorts of things
I don't find many things hard to watch but that was tough. I don't know about other places in the world but in Australia most primary schools do swimming lessons (ether free or very affordable) and on top of that there are signs everywhere at public swimming pools that say to NEVER take your eyes off of your kids in the pool. I've seen a lifeguard chew out a mum for staring at her phone the whole time her kids were in the pool. So they're pretty strict about it over here.
That’s nice. I didn’t have swimming lessons as a kid. Drowned in front of my parents. They didn’t notice. Another kid saved my life. Even when that happened my parents still didn’t understand what almost happened.
This video is so incredibly disturbing. The women w/ a child to the right sees something is wrong & she just backs away.. so sad. I have a pool & 2 small grandkids that I always worry about drowning & will know what to do if an accident happens. Thank god he made it
I am the same way gus. I was at a swimming area at a dam (no life guard) with my nephew and there were about 4 kids who were between 3 and 9 who's grandma had taken them or mom who were sitting up on the grass area. imo to far away from the water if something happened. My nephew was about 6 and I was so nervous about these children who honestly weren't being watched. Their grandma was reading or the mom was sun bathing and it looked like she was asleep. My nephew cant swim but we plan to get him into lessons soon so I was right there the whole time. My anxiety for these kids was so high that I decided to basically wrangle them up and have them start playing together so I could watch them easier. It took over an hour for the grandma to even notice I was watching her 2 grandkids. Shed come over to tell them to stop bothering me, I assured her I wasnt bothered and the kids were just having fun. When I was young my grandma had made sure that I had swimming lessons, all her children and grandchildren had swimming lessons. When she was 13 her bestfriend drowned in the river and she was terrified of being in water that was more then hip deep. Heck she didnt even like it when her face got wet in the shower, she always kept a washcloth to dry her face when it got wet. When we were little she basically drilled it into us that even though we could swim we had to be safe and watch out for eachother. (My niece, cousin, and I were all around the same age.) Now my grandma never wanted us to be afraid of the water but she did make it very clear that it could be dangerous.
I appreciate you guys do videos like this it has major teaching benefits and forces viewers to face reality that not everything is all sunshine and rainbows. It also helps some of us non-lifeguard people learn to recognize some signs of a struggle.
Tears, as an individual that had two near drownings as a child, now an advanced diver with sidemount certification. Im glad the child is alive and hopefully has had some swim training. Also makes me feel all the more vigilant while near water and children
Seeing it, watching it from a camera or lifeguard perch is much different than passively looking every now and then. As a kid and adult I constantly see how long I can hold my breath, how? By being lifeless, face down, for over a minute and I do it over and over again. No one has ever come to see if I was okay during that time. This is very difficult to spot passively.
This was really hard to watch. 😢 Thank God the little boy made it. I hope lessons were learned by everyone. Thanks for the hard work you guys put in on these videos. 👍
You're so right about keeping an eye on people. Kids and the elderly or disabled are instantly the ones I'll watch more carefully. I also have no shame offering a hand pre-emptively and being rejected because I'd rather have offered and they don't need it than the other option. Also thanks for the tip about drowning and CPR. I would have 100% went for chest compressions first.
I got to say this video had my anxiety going through the roof up until the point where I heard he survived and I know it's been said so many times but I cannot believe the parents would let their child who they know cannot swim stay at the pool all by himself and just go do their own thing I don't even have children and I know that's insane
I have a 2-year-old in swimming classes right now. The bulk of his instruction has centered around the fundamentals of self-preservation. How to climb out of the pool on the side. How to roll on to his back. How to blow bubbles to expel air and water. She obviously had an outstanding swimming teacher as well. Shout out to Miss Samantha.
Geez I nearly drowned with a pool full of relatives when I was 7 or 8 years old. It wasn’t stressful, I didn’t even know that I couldn’t breathe, it was really peaceful and blue. I could see people jumping in, and the bubbles they made. I’ve got no memory of trying to get my head back up above the water, I don’t even know how I managed to get under the water, I remember I was on the steps then next thing I wasn’t, I was completely under it. My dad jumped in and saved me, he just had this emotion take over and knew something was drastically wrong. This is so full on 😢 Watching him struggle like that was terrifying
In my lifeguard course my instructor said that if you see someone having an issue to never assume they are playing or horsing around and take everything seriously because it’s the one time you assume they are playing that they could be having an issue and time is incredibly important.. my heart broke watching this
i had a few close calls as a kid and i can attest its not like the movies 😂 you usually cant splash hard or yell to anybody because your drowning. if you can't get above water you cant say anything to anybody or call for help. i remember one time at the pool i just kept sinking in the deep end and i struggled to the wall panicked and gasping.
As someone who feels a social anxiety and recognize behaviors as much as i dont try to. This is crazy. Such a small fucking pool. Absolutely mind boggling how not a single soul noticed anything .
Its sooo hard to understand how nobody noticed. This really showed me some awareness of how difficult it can be to identify someone in trouble. Thank God he made it.
thats because you are watching him drowning from the begining and you know he is actually drowning (your eyes and mind is focused only on that drowning kid) ... also the time flows different from everyone and if you watching someone who is in trouble and all you can do is watching how it ends, the time flow for you very slow... but if you have fun then 4 min flows like instant. Also some people are affraid to do anything to avoid awkard situation when theyer help was not need ( the kid could have just fun holding his breath )... its hard to guess what are they thinking about but also its hard to guess what would YOU do if you are in that situation. ( i know most people are like... i would be the one messiash who can fix everything and save everyone but reality is something else)
Same thing happened in my city about a month ago. The mother left her three year old son unattended in a community pool and he ended up drowning and dying in front of people who never noticed.
Omg! Thank you for sharing! It is so hard to spot drowning!👀 I’m like Gus, I have a huge fear of drowning and choking, I always watch kids and others around me especially when I don’t see parents around. My husband thinks I’m crazy 😅 I’m so glad he made it , that’s amazing !!!♥️
This is so distressing to see the lack of awareness and help! Thank you guys for spreading awareness of this issue, I don’t think it’s covered enough! My poor grandad had the unfortunate situation of finding a drown child on the way home from the local shop, they had a pool out the front and he was unsupervised, awful situation.
Wow what a crazy video! This is a pure textbook example of what is known in psychology as the Bystander Effect, A phenomenon that is actually terrifyingly common. People walking by (or in this case swimming) others in danger, tend to leave them in danger because they believe other witnesses will help out. It is very selfish, in a way that the people who watch and do nothing assume less responsibility because they haven’t done anything to make the situation worse even if the reality is vice versa. Appreciate the reaction and commentary, you guys make me want to take up scuba diving more and more!
No, I don’t think it is. The bystander effect is when people KNOW something is going on, but don’t act because they assume someone else will. Here, it’s very clear that nobody realized there was anything amiss at all until he literally bumped into the woman who pulled him out.
Bless that he survived. It was so gut-wrenching to see how he was just drifting around. I'd never just swim around whenever at the apartment complex, I'd usually stay on the edge if others joined in, especially with kids. I was a kid myself, but my mother often told us not to assume everyone is ok and that it doesn't hurt to check on someone even more so when it involves pools. I'm so glad he survived but also sad there have been other children who didn't. Take care at the pools.
The lady by the steps was actually the one to notice the boy when he was floating near the person who ended up picking him up. She stood there for like 20 seconds watching then took her kid and walked somewhere else for a bit, then came back and i think she may have said somrthing to the person who picked him up. She shouldve immediately alerted someone to check on that kid. Or put her kid down and go over herself. What the heck!
Been watching your channel since you guys had 1,000 subscribers! Keep up the good work keep fighting the good fight don’t worry about what others think of your opinions!
Greetings from Finland. According to the news from the time, the mother had left the boy in the children's pool while she and her friend went into sauna for 10 minutes because they were cold. The mother had told the boy (who did not know how to swim) that he is not allowed to leave the shallow children's pool. But as soon as the mother left, the boy went into the deeper spa-pool. The boy was submerged for 4 minutes 36 seconds. He was lifeless for almost 3 minutes. The person who finally noticed the boy when he bumped into her lifted him up and started cpr. He was then transported to a children's hospital and he has recovered well. No permanent damage to his health has been found.
The mother, a 44-year old Estonian citizen was prosecuted of negligence. She has stated that she is shocked from what happened, and that she has learned her lesson from it. She pleaded guilty, and was initially sentenced to prison for four months. The court said that a fine is not a big enough penalty for her. But since she had no criminal background she was sentenced to probation instead of jail time. She was also sentenced to pay 1500 euros (about 1554 dollars nowdays) of compensation to the boy from suffering and pain. The court also said that her actions were inconsiderate and that she was unconcerned about the child's health. The court said that there was a considerable risk of the child having serious, permanent damages or he could have died. The prosecutor was not happy about the sentence, and the case went to higher court, court of appeals.
The court of appeals agreed with the prosecutor. They stated that although the mothers actions were mostly because of thoughtlessness, they also show a high level of guilt. She was sentenced to 10 months of probation. The mother said that because of the huge publicity the case got, the sentence should be shorter. The court of appeals stated that since her name has not been published, they won't take publicity into account when measuring the sentence.
EDIT: the mother did not ask for money because the case went public. She wanted the sentence to be reduced (less probation time). I edited the part of the comment that was misleading.
The mom had to pay 1500 to her son?? How does that work?
@@Kwisatz_HaderachXIIII assume it is put into a trust.
@@Kwisatz_HaderachXIII It will be paid to an account the mother has no access to. Im not sure who gets to decide how to use that money, is it the father or the social services maybe. But the bottom line is, it is his money and the mother cant use it.
This needs to be the highlighted comment so people can read the full story!
I can’t believe she had the audacity to ask for compensation regarding her sentence because of the publicity it got. Her name and face SHOULD have been published. People like that rescind their right to privacy when they commit such a selfish heinous act that should have resulted in the child’s death. It’s a miracle he survived. I almost hope he was adopted into another family. She doesn’t deserve or have the capacity to be his mother if after all of that and apparently feeling guilty, she selfishly was upset that the case got publicity. This type of thing SHOULD get as much publicity as possible to prevent it happening to any other children. Stupid selfish woman.
A few months ago, I watched this video. Today, I was able to save a child's life because of this video. It was the exact same situation: a pool, the child had gone into the deep area, and was kicking hard underwater. He was unable to keep his head above water even for a moment to yell for help. When I saw this happening, I immediately remembered the video and jumped in to help. 0 reaction from others... When I reached the child, he was too exhausted to move. Thankfully, he hadn't lost consciousness and was still fighting to not make a breath underwater. When I brought him to the surface, he took the loudest and deepest breath I had ever heard from a human being. It almost made me cry tho at that moment. Because I thought he was on his way out, and we would have to fight for his life. So kid is fine. Parents got their asses whooped(verbally). Tomorrow that boy will learn how to swim.
You can add another soul to the countless ones you have saved by spreading awareness. You guys are the best!
you are a good person for doing that i know how it feels to drown
That's exactly what I'm talking about in my comment! Thank you so much for your awareness of people around you. EVERYBODY should be paying attention to others like that. It's like helping someone choking, or how to react to a fire and smoke, or at least recognizing someone drowning and call for help. For me it's basic skill survival for life. You'll help yourself and others.
So all hail you then.
I believe it’s deferring of responsibility, power/authority structures in society lure people into a state of passive complicity. Yes lifeguards are trained to recognise these things, but also that’s what their focus is on I suppose, people in the pool aren’t actively going out of their way to think about spotting a dead person in the water, they’re just swimming
As a former lifeguard, I was in tears watching this. In the 20+ years since I was a certified lifeguard, I've saved 3 people (2 children and 1 adult) simply from being observant and paying attention. None of them drowned, but most likely would have if I hadn't acted. It's hard for me to even enjoy swimming at a public pool or beach with friends or family because I'm paying attention to everyone else in the water.
Everyone should be doing this when children are nearby, to be honest. It is so telling about our society.
I do the same thing but it's not just in water. Being a nurse I am always watching people and what is going on....
So thankful this boy survived but this should have never happened.....❤
Even outside the setting of being in water, people should really learn to pay attention to their surroundings at least a little bit. Not only for others, but also their own security. I can understand recognizing drowning can be difficult without training, but once you've got someone floating face down in the water, this should start raising at least your attention...
These are good points, but I think the other issue we have in our society these days is the stigma of looking at someone else’s child, I feel like people are afraid to look at other people’s children in fear of been looked at like a predator, especially in a swimming pool where everyone wears less in the first place unless your a person that is trained and certified.
@@RexRex88 If you're trained, you only stare when there's a potential problem. Otherwise you are scanning ALL the children AND adults quickly in a pattern. It's something we were taught and trained to do. I've never once encountered a parent that thought I was being a creep.
Christ. This was the hardest thing I've ever watched. I felt physically ill watching him struggle. I'm so relieved to hear he survived, poor kid
As a mother with a 4 year old this was unbelievably hard to watch. I can’t imagine ever leaving my son alone near the water! He is afraid of the water and actually says “i don’t know how to swim” after watching this video i talked to him and we are going to do swim lessons come summer time! thank you for educating us! and i will now watch others more closely in the water after watching how silent this can be!
Who knows, maybe he will become a lifeguard one day, make some extra scratch, and help prevent something like this happening to someone else! One conversation can change the course of a little one's life.
@@mekan0001 yes!! i sure hope so! He’s a smart little guy with a big heart! ❤️🥰
Awesome! ❤️
Great decision! I believe every single human being, especially children, should learn how to swim at the earliest age possible.
Regardless of whether you live by the ocean or in the middle of nowhere, miles from water. There is *always* risk of drowning if water is deeper than a few inches.
As a vigilant and cautious person, I was bothered by this tremendously too.
I would have been holding this boy within seconds of him going under.
That’s not even your kid lmfao.
Why do u even care
It's an absolutely egregious example of the blindness of crowds. I've jumped off the tower to rescue a drowning kid stuck under an innertube who was literally clinging to his dads waist in a wave pool. The dad was clueless until I pulled his sons head above water. He broke down in tears after realizing how quickly the situation turned bad without him ever noticing.
If you have kids and frequent a pool without a lifeguard, please take the class yourself and put the kids in swim lessons. Woody is 100% right. Just recognizing a distressed swimmer can take extraordinary amounts of practice, let alone preforming the actual rescue.
I grew up with a pool and swim like a fish, got certified as a lifeguard in high school. My wife is a very weak swimmer. I plan to make sure both my daughters get certified too, even if they never want to do the job.
This happened to me I almost drowned next to my parents and another kid saved me. They didn’t even get what could’ve happened.
@@penguin12902 As a terrible swimmer, I avoid getting into any sort of deep water. Nothing above my waist.
Been in a similar situation. The dad of my friend was playing rough with us. At one point, he made the mistake to sit on my friend. I saw her panic and try to cry, but she couldn't make any noise. She could not breathe. For some reason, I became super calm, and told him she couldn't breathe and was crying. He got off in confusion, only to find out then just how much he fucked up. Thankfully she was okay. It lasted less than a minute, buy those seconds were horrifying.
I'm literally at tears here... holy shit man! Having drowned myself as a kid and saved by a lifeguard, this video hit me haaaaaard! The first thing I did with my kids was to put them through swim school, as soon as they began walking. Thank goodness the kid made it. THANK YOU GUS for bringing awareness to this.
From a former hotel worker, I must say thank you for sharing this and spreading awareness. I used to work at a hotel and I actually saw someone die in front of me from drowning. I was working the front desk that had a glass to look into the pool area next to me when a man jumped in, hit his head on the side of the pool, and just slipped under silently. By the time anyone noticed he was already too far gone even after being pulled out and worked on. Honestly, it was the most traumatic and life changing thing to ever happen to me and my life has definitely been shaped around it. People expect it to be dramatic and loud when in reality it's a silent killer that goes unnoticed. People just go under and you just don't notice till it's too late.
There's no way you could have known from that location.
In this case, people were inches from the child, in the water with him already.
I think at a certain point it becomes negligence, but in your case it was literally impossible to know. I understand the trauma but don't let yourself feel guilty.
I worked at a water park as a teen & to the company’s credit, this was drilled into our minds & we actually were properly trained. Think (opposite of action park)! The lazy river and wave pools are super susceptible to a kid going under and nobody noticing! Almost every lifeguard working in those two areas would have at least one rescue each summer. They would even show videos like this to scare the reality into us.
How did this kid survive after so long?
@@dwmueller76 I had friends who worked at an indoor water park. They used a black flat silloet of a human to test them. They would put it in the water and you had very little time to spot it. Even being all black my friends said it was hard to spot. I guess it looked like a shadow. Only one friend got fired for not seeing it in time. He is not the most attentive and observant person..
good way to make it about urself.. pathetic
When his body spasmed violently right before passing out, I was sure he wasn’t going to make it. Thank the universe that he survived this. I fully agree with everything you’re both saying on this.
The point where he reached the wall his lungs were probably already full of water. He got his head out but seemed like he couldnt take a breath.
Thank Our Lord & Sav😢Jesus Christ he was saved No the Universe Heaven help me
yeah its too hard to just Thank God isnt it. thank the rocks and the stars instead lol
@@milesstover3724 Enough. Respect other’s beliefs.
@@morgue. it was Jesus
4.25 minutes...!? Wow, the fact he survived is just as shocking. I don't know if I would have noticed if my eyes weren't locked on him for more than a few seconds.
These videos make you think, you would never believe someone could drown surrounded by people if you hadn't seen it, now I've seen it twice via your videos..
Well... It would seem "The rule of 3's" for survival might serve well as a guide to when someone MUST be in dire need of help, but isn't the basis for giving up hope. Perhaps, it's true, "The only correct answer IS hope." in such situations.
Nobody's dead "for sure" in other words, until a proper medical professional TELLS YOU that they're dead... "for sure". ;o)
Children are more likely to survive drowning than adults I believe.
What’s concerning is brain damage
Based on the court papers, the child recovered well from the incident.
Everything after 2 minute mark is inexcusable. Before that is unfortunate, and inattentive. Pay attention and give a helping hand
This is absolutely heartbreaking. I'm like Gus when it comes to watching others. Anytime I go to a pool or if I'm at a hotel pool, I always keep an eye out for others. I'm just so happy that the kid made it. I can't imagine what it would have been like for him. This is why it's so important as parent to keep an eye on children, even if they're not your own.
Thank you Gus and Woody for educating us!
I agree with you 100%. I’m a people watcher and very observant, especially when it comes to a child who may be in distress. I always say, it takes a village…
@@RandomComment6 I'll disagree on the village part; it takes a parent. But, when the parents have, by action or through inaction, abdicated their responsibility, it is good for our species and society that people like you stand ready to pick up the slack.
I'm literally shaking. Not really but very close to it. Not in anger but in like panic. That was super hard to watch. I have lifeguard training but I've never been a lifeguard. It was just training I wanted. I'm not saying I would have noticed if I was there. Not if I was just like swimming in the pool. However I would like to think I would notice if he was out in front of near me etc. Within my general view. I generally do keep my eyes open while swimming. I've had plenty of situations where I'm like that person is underwater or looks like they are struggling. But as I investigate I realize they are fine. But since we know from the start of this video that a kid will be drowning.
It's really hard to watch. It's like how can they not all notice. But it's a call to reality. I'm struggling like how can these people not notice. But at the same time I fear being one of them myself. But I just wanted to jump though the screen so badly. If this ever happens around me in real life. Please let me notice. It's videos like these that keep me even more alert in life. The fact he lived is unbelievable.
This is possible because people dont know nothing about their own body. And it will get worse. As a kid you have to test your physical abilities. But when you have no connection to your own body, it's much harder to see what b is going on.
They (people in Video)do not detect false pattern in movement. The internet will have killed that abilities one day
Seems like not my kid, not my problem. As an older single man, I keep my space from children and try to keep my eyes to myself as well. I don’t want to be accused of being too close or too interested in children.
When my daughter was 4 yro we moved from NY to AZ and all of a sudden pools were everywhere and my daughter fell in love with being in the water. Her enthusiasm with pools scared me. I immediately started teaching her how to swim, float and hold her breath underwater.
She wanted to swim without her arm floaties but I told her it wasn't going to happen until she could swim the length of the pool and back as well as dive down the deep end, retrieve a quarter from the bottom and bring it back to the pool deck.
Of course I was right beside her for every attempt she made until she could complete the entire course. So glad I did because by the time she was 5 we went to my friends house. My daughter went looking for my friends 3 1/2 yro and found her on the bottom of the pool. In between screaming for us, she jumped in, brought the baby back up to the surface and was struggling to get that baby up the steps and out of the pool.
The baby would not have survived if my daughter hadn't found her when she did. I've had many proud moments concerning my daughter but nothing has ever topped that.
Wow, that’s amazing! Well done, both of you!!
@@tookitogo I give all the credit to her. At 4 yro she found a desperate passion that a lot of adults never find. And it was that passion that terrified me into action.
If circumstances hadn't happened the way they did when she got older, most likely, the world would have known her name through the Olympics. Sadly, that was not to be for her.
However, she didn't sit around feeling sorry for herself. She, almost immediately, found a new passion in music and learned how to play the flute flawlessly.
She went on to win numerous awards and established a beautiful musical career as well as teaching underprivileged kids how to appreciate music of all genres and how to play various woodwind instruments.
Many proud moments.😁
You are an amazing parent.
@@beepbopboop7727 Thank you but I think it's more like she's an amazing daughter. I was and am not a trained swim teacher. As a matter of fact I only had 2 or 3 lessons myself when I was about 7 years old. That really is all the training knowledge I had. It took me much longer to get to the level she accomplished in a week.
She literally was like a fish that had lived in the water its entire life. With her level of maturity she made me wish I could be like her when I grew up. 😁
how on earth did you expect her to dive to the bottom with arm floaties on
This breaks my heart! As a former certified lifeguard, I still have the habit of scanning an area where people are swimming, because you are right, not everyone is trained to notice drowning. This should be taught more often than lifeguard training, if more people knew the signs so many accidents could be prevented.
Absolutely! Great comment and I agree!
Woody
100% agree. how long did you lifeguard for and did guard indoor, outdoor, or both? I personally have only guarded indoor for 6 years 3 at a YMCA and two at another local indoor pool. yeah this pissed me off I can't believe not a single person in that pool or on the deck notice that this was absolutely preventable and it breaks my heart too know the parents had to find out their kid died because of obliviousness and a lack of awareness. as a fellow lifeguard,well, ex-life guard I salute you.
Yep. I mentioned elsewhere I nearly drowned like this kid. I was swimming after my brother (eldest who knew how to swim) and we were kind of racing and when we got to the deep it just seemed to get harder. I panicked and was flailing just like that kid, but I had my eyes open and saw the bottom. I exhaled, sank, and walked on the bottom a few steps to push myself up. I was vomiting water when I breached and nearly passed out clinging to the side of the pool.
When I'm around a public pool I make sure I'm aware of my surrounding. When the kids, even if they are with their parents, are swimming past me, I watch them to see if they are struggling and will often just put my arm out right in front of them, so they grab it if they need. I make eye contact with who I think is the parent and give the motion of a thumbs up/down pointing at the kid. They usually motion back or come over, but I avoid yelling to distract the kid. I've noticed that kid is usually trying to impress their parents will often struggle to the point of exhaustion and then they sink like rocks. I've only had to do this a handful of times, but I'm left almost speechless every time.
I learned to swim the hard way, like many, but be damned if my parents weren't at least around to make sure I wasn't dead. There was only one time they couldn't save me and I was just lucky af to get out of a rip tide.
So while I agree, life guard training is great! However, people just need to be aware and have common sense, which is actually not that much effort.
Same! I’m constantly scanning and counting heads anytime I’m in or near the water.
My dad was a surfer and he trained me well, my knuckles were white i was holding such a fist, at 6 years old i would have been able to spot this kid and help. Makes me want to scream, I am the older cousin to countless little twerps, and there has been times where parents have left me in the pool with too many, ive had to be awful and scream at them to get out of the pool right now, so that i could get out find and tell the parents off/ ask for someone else to help because i wasnt able to keep my eye on all of them at once + have them climb over me. I think i was 16 and telling parents how they shouldnt be putting their children in danger and it wasnt fair to rely on me completely, they were all under 10 and 80% of them unable to swim I wasnt comfortable leaving unattended in the water without support from sinking. Dad told me afterwards he was watching me like an absolute hawk the entire time :), he was proud of me getting them out and finding help, it felt awesome to know he was there the whole time just incase I needed him.
1/4 of a century old and he still doesnt like me going in the pool or ocean by myself though lol, water is a cruel mistress, I think its unbeilevable how litle people know about general survival, cold, fire, water, humans. We should be taught in schools.
My first paying job was as a pool lifeguard and this was absolutely excruciating to watch. I'm literally crying right now, even though I know he survived. Every word you spoke was true. Drowning is silent. It's stealthy. The vast majority of people don't recognize it when they see it. That said, the mother wasn't even [redacted] THERE, which utterly infuriates me. Parents, if your child is in the water, whether he/she can swim or not, WATCH YOUR CHILD. Don't go off to the spa or whatever, STAY CLOSE. Talk to them every minute or two 'how are you doing?' 'are you having fun?' Make sure they're okay. That is YOUR CHILD and you have ONE JOB. Do it!
I didn't react much while watching the clip (besides frustration) but.. hearing you say he survived.. I just began to cry. I am so relieved to hear that! Though knowing how often this happens to other children (and even adults) is still just so heart breaking...
My mom was saved from drowning once when I was a kid and she knew how to swim! It was at a river beach though and she got sucked into a small hole in the ground that pulled her under enough that she couldn't get up. Thankfully a man saw her cry for help as she went down and he literally yanked her from the water.
this is another reason why i stay on land and watch under water content from the safety of my home thanks to cool peeps like y'all. (:
I started to feel sick watching this but this comment makes me
Able to go forward with the video. That poor boy!!!
@@kasterborous903 Glad I was able to help in a small way!
Oh thank god
When I was like 7 years old I almost drowned in a public pool full of people. I was rescued by another child who was about my age. He floated over to me on his donut, grabbed me, and took me to the edge of the pool. No adult noticed, and in fact, my mom didn't find out about that until I was an adult and I brought it up. If anyone wonders, the reason I was alone in the deep end was because I wanted to go down the slide on the deep end and my older brother told me he'd catch me, by the time it was my turn, and I had come down the slide, my brother had become distracted by a girl. My mother would have never left me alone in a pool, and I would have never gone to the deep end without permission because even though I can swim, I was not a strong/confident swimmer as a kid and I think I just panicked when I came down and my brother wasn't there.
It literally took his body BUMPING INTO SOMEONE for them to realize what was going on. The situational awareness was zero... I understand you're relaxing at a pool, but come on, there are kids there. That mother learned a tough lesson that day.
So glad he made it!
Yeah his lifeless body was like literally on top of someone until they noticed.
Well, i used to float like that face down on purpose back when i was a kid. Could do it for 5 minutes with my eyes closed, it was something really relaxing. The less movement, the less you think, and the slower your heart, the longer you can keep your breath. I even used to exhale half my breath and sit at the bottom of the pool for a few minutes just looking up and around. So yea, you really can't know what someone is up to without obvious signs of struggle. Now granted, there have been times i have been bothered by others while doing these things because of them thinking something is wrong, but over years it's like 2 or 3 times i think. So yea, most people don't wanna bother others, there is also the stigma side of it, as it could be taken wrongly to be watching others at a pool, let alone kids, unless you are lifeguard, so people just block their perception to others around them and relax basically...
I mean the guy and woman were looking away near the end of the clip their so they couldn't have seen anything. Only when the kid bumped into her she turned around and helped.
You know, it's a good thing you guys cover these tough topics.
How many people are more informed across a variety of dangers and risks because of you guys? It's possible you've already saved lives through your informative videos.
I always generally watch others when I swim with them because I'm usually the best swimmer in the group but I never knew drowning could be so silent. Without this video I would have never learned, now I know that I need to watch out for silent waters instead of splashing waters next time I am with my friends or family swimming.
People need to see this. It happens too often.
towards the beginning when people noticed the kid they most likely thought he was having fun spinning around and such, but towards the end when he was trying to reach the edge to people as they move away I mean you can't be that oblivious, it is clear as day what is going on at that point.
There is no way they did not see the kid floating there for roughly 2minutes in a small pool, they literally were at arms length....in spite of everything, I am just glad the kid survived.
Think most thought the kid was playing around. We used to do the dead mans float when we were kids. Think it also has something to do with the lighting in there. Seems like most of the lighting is coming from insided the pool, which is going to cause weird shadows and dead (pardon the pun) spots.
@@chrisd2p2 that’s not good enough and honestly we shouldn’t be making excuses for them, this child was clearly in trouble and they went out of their way to not help
@@broccloi If you couldnt see the kid how could you help?
So glad you've publicised this issue. Believe it or not I was 49 before I realised that people drown quietly. Not flailing and calling for help. It's terrifying and we really need to educate everyone from a young age about this
My boyfriend drowned a year before I met him, he was resuscitated and came back thankfully. He now watches our kids so closely around water and he notices the second it’s off
This was horrifying to watch. I did not know how upsetting this would be. The level of obliviousness that took place in this pool was shocking. As a parent, I am never in a pool without watching other children, even if they are not my own. I am always looking out for people in the pool as a natural response to being a parent and a caring person. We live in Florida and made sure that we got our kids proper swim lessons with safety being the number one priority. I also never left my kids alone in a pool without my self or another capable adult present until they were over 13 years old and had shown complete competence and safety. Some people may say that that is overkill, but I would rather be safe than ever get a phone call that something happened to my child or any other children in my care.
One of the perks of living in Australia near the coast is that most of us know how to swim. We get taught at school how to swim even in situations like flash flooding where they get you to jump in the pool with heavy clothes and boots on. We are also taught rescue strokes to help someone who is struggling. I'm so happy this kid survived, we have so many situations from tourists drowning in our beaches because they don't know how to swim and we have strong rips here too. This video was one of the toughest ones to watch.
Same where I am on the southeast English coast, but far too many tourists from London and other cities drown because they only learned to swim (not very strongly) in a pool, and then get caught completely unawares by waves and tide. Sometimes I think children having swimming lessons actually contributes to the number, because they have confidence that they "can" swim. Especially when their parents are non swimmers who don't know the danger, which is very common in the poor and minority communities who make up the majority of drowning victims 😢
This is crazy. How can they not see he’s drowning/drowned? I’ve been a swimmer my entire life, and I can’t understand that lack of care and paying attention. Unreal.
We have a neighborhood pool... the amount of kids I have saved because their parents were glued to their phone is infuriating. No, I'm not a lifeguard, I'm just usually the only other adult who is in the pool with their kid. The fact that THREE adults were not only in the pool, but looking at him as he was clearly struggling to stay above is insane. I am so glad that boy survived, but I hope his mother faces serious charges. Ridiculous.
God bless you for being vigilant.
It was infuriating to see the 2 grown men, 1 standing there watching the boy struggle and then the guy next to the wall swimming away when the boy reached for him. Poor boy must have been so terrified. Thank God he lived.
@@justkim9827 every child deserves parents. Not every parent deserves a child.
You're ridiculous. It's not their job to watch some random kid swimming. If you really are so experienced at saving people obviously you should know how hard it is to recognize. I'll tell you what tho. If some little shit kid tried grabbing me in a pool underwater I'd probably swim the hell away.
@@jhtsurvival so edgy. So weak.
@@ellencox8415 there's nothing edgy about not wanting to be bothered by other people's kids.
This is THE MOST terrifying thing I’ve ever seen. Can’t help but think of this as your child struggling and scared out of his mind. This poor kid.
I had to look at the comments to make sure the kid survived before watching. To make sure he made it. Drowning isn't always loud. Drowning can be silent.
I've had two events where I was lucky enough that someone noticed I was in trouble. The first was when I was JUST learning to swim. I didn't thrash, I didn't struggle. I literally just sank to the bottom of the twelve foot pool and stared upwards to the ceiling. There was a strange calm that time that came over me that I've never since experienced again. I was lucky the instructor finally noticed and dove down for me. The second time was when I got caught in the waves and I was just too young and too weak to fight. My sister figured what was happening immediately and saved me, but my father couldn't tell at all and thought everything was okay. He was staring right at me and thought I was just playing around. People NEED to educate themselves on what it looks like when someone is drowning.
I was horrified to watch all the adults around him just ... Walk past and ignore him. That poor boy must have been so terrified.
Same here, I had no desire to watch a kid dying, but thought neither Woody or Gus would want comment on that either, they have good hearts.
When is drowning ever loud. Drowning means they’re under water and can’t swim so they can’t yell or anything that would require getting your mouth above water.
Oh yeah that’s exactly right. People will just watch someone drown right in front of them. It’s crazy. I guess that’s why I’m not a big swimmer.
@@1234kingconan When people are thrashing and splashing around in a struggle to break the surface? That's what I meant.
So glad he survived. Information is power. If your an adult….. and you have kids. Train. Protect our kids. When I’m at a pool I’m the lifeguard, I take that responsibility personally. Watch all children in the water. Thanks for showing this. Y’all are awesome
Honestly, and I say this from the bottom of my heart. I see woody as a second father figure. What a lovely man
Thanks for some reason I've watched like 50 of these videos on this channel. And I keep forgetting both of there names. In truth I never really remembered either to begin with. But I have a feeling that after reading your comment I will at least remember Woody now! I'm just horrible at names. I sometimes need to read or write them or hear someone else talk about a person. To commit it to memory. But I still don't know the other guys name? Wait is it Gus? Woody and Gus? Once I hear the name Woody I feel like Gus sounds familier. Yes I think I see Gus being used in other comments. Is that not terrible of me? lol I think I finally know there names now though. Thank you Hanood.
Me too! I hold him in such a deep respect. He’s so kind and caring about everyone including animals most people don’t care about. So much respect for woody!
I'm crying I literally am bawling. As a first responder and emergency room employee I am just shocked I worked with drowning victims specifically minors and this was just horrific
This is why I have a hard time at public pools. I get hyper vigilant watching others and can't enjoy it. I have already had to do cpr on one drowning victim while off duty and the thought of that happening again while I am there fills me with paniced dread. Teaching someone to at least be comfortable in the water and to float is one of the greatest things you can do for them.
Swimming lessons are mandatory at most primary schools in australia, 1 day a week for 2 months of lessons starts second year so 6 years old and again every 2 years. I think you have to then sign up after 10 years old if you want to continue to go into swimming sports and stuff.
Thank god I went to a great public pool when I was a kid in the 90’s I jumped into deep in and couldn’t swim. (All my friends were). A life guard noticed right away; and pulled me out of the 10 ft after I didn’t come up from bottom and took in a ton of water; definitely saved my life.
Now I swim 2 hrs a day in public pool. Lol. I always keep an eye out for kids in the pool.
A few months ago my nephew almost drowned in a jacuzzi. He was surrounded by a lot of of people and no one noticed. He made no sound at all. Thankfully his mom noticed and jumped in but it made me realize just how fast something like this can happen without anyone noticing
These types of videos are so hard to watch but I feel a weird sense of obligation to see videos like these and learn from them. Doesn't stop me yelling at the screen for somebody to help though. So thankful that kids are so resilient!
I've never cried so hard just watching this. I am a first time mom and I couldn't bear the thought of any child going through this and no one helping. This is so heart breaking.
How can a parent leave their kid alone anywhere, let alone by a pool?!?! 😡
Im guessing some parents "assume" others will watch after them.
My oldest (6 year old) has had swimming lessons and I still watch him even when I have to split my attention with my toddler. If I want to go to the sauna or hot tub, I make sure my husband or a friend is able to watch my kids. I don't trust strangers to be aware or even act to help.
As a lifeguard and rescue diver, I fortunately have not had such an incident.
However, it is pointed out at every training session that most swimmers, including children, drown silently and do not lash out in panic.
Therefore, it is very good that you bring this video. Better to be wrong once and check if the swimmer is OK than to act too late.
my cousin Christopher Thompson drowned in the Hicksville ohio public school pool while a life guard was on duty, the pure negligence in this video reminds me of the trauma my family had to go through. So sad. Im so glad for the family that he lived.
When I was a kid I almost drowned in a hotel pool. I wasn’t a good swimmer and started going under. Within seconds I was fighting for my life. I felt I was going to go under for the last time when I yelled. I went under and a lady grabbed me and moved me to where I could reach. I think she might have saved my life 🙏
Geez, am SO glad the kid survived. That was rough to watch.. it is unfortunate that movies/TV shows have almost trained us to view drowning in the exact opposite way it happens in real life
Right?!
This is absolutely shocking. More shocking than the boy drowning was the how he slipped by so many people. This just makes me hyper aware of everyone around me while in a body of water. Thanks guys.
I'm so relieved he survived - it was feeling too long and too hopeless. I can't believe it took forever for someone to take action, because it appears he was noticed a few times but who knows what these people were thinking.
I've had two near drownings myself. First time, my dad was momentarily distracted so my brother took advantage (he's evil, btw) and kept hovering over me on a floatation bed so I couldn't surface. I was in the shallow end but I just didn't have the strength to push him off the bed. I had to swim to the pool edge and slither myself up as close to the wall as I could which pushed him away eventually. Second time was when I was in a wave pool for the very first time. Despite my friend telling me exactly what to expect and how to 'bounce' the waves, I was completely out of sync and I was trying to surface right when the full height of the wave was over me. I really thought I was going to die this time, had the life flashes, and was basically in the process of accepting it. Thankfully, my friend's dad was right by us and was being hyper-aware because he knew of my inexperience with wave pools. He was able to pull me up at the right time and kept me in sync for the rest of the wave cycle. Now, this pool WAS heavily lifeguarded but even they didn't notice the distress I was in. I'm really glad I didn't lie and say I was good in wave pools.
I really hope your brother didn't really understand what he was doing and not actually trying to murder you, that's so sick, sorry you have a family member lije that. Water really can be terrifying and those wave pools specially dangerous for unexperienced children.
Everyone needs to watch this... Do Not Take This Vidoe Down!!! People need to see how easy it can happen. The distraction and unawareness is way more common then people could imagine! Happy ending too!
I normally just sigh at content warnings but this one really got me. It probably hits the amygdala so profoundly because, at 12 years, I pulled an ~8yo from the pool. He was still barely conscious but I rolled him onto his side and he coughed out the water while the "lifeguard" who had been flirting with someone instead of performing his appointed function, suddenly took note. That was my very first time of filing a formal complaint against an authority figure.
I have to disagree with you about NOT letting children watch. Mine are both in the single-digits and I fully plan on having them watch, in proper context of swim safety, before the weather warms enough next year to get back to the water.
Yeah everyone should watch this. Like I’d rather watch this and know the risks than DIE
I used to float like that in pools, ocean, etc to get my breath hold up as a kid. One day a lifeguard was blowing his whistle, and I was in the zone oblivious, he pulled me up 5 seconds later, and explained what he had witnessed in the past and how I truly frightened him. So he asked if I’m going to do it moving forward, keep my thumb up while floating. This was in the giant wave pool at adventure island, with hundreds in at any time. But he spotted me and was in the water in seconds. This was super painful to watch, now I know the trauma I put on that guard playing around. As I got older I learned the most obvious reason as well, so others know you are still conscious or not, but I was a kid. God bless lifeguards, every pool should require one.
The term Woody is looking for is "innatentive blindness" 😔
Years ago my family was at a public pool that while it had lifeguards was severely overcrowded. I don’t clearly remember this because I was so young but I have heard multiple family members tell very similar stories about this day. All I really know for certain is that a child went under the water, and in the crush of people no lifeguard saw it. Thankfully much like Gus my father was paying attention to the people around us and saw this kid go under and not come up, and was able to save the kid quickly enough that the child never lost consciousness. We left shortly after and our family never went back to that pool, which closed shortly after. These tragedies can happen so quickly but if everyone were to pay a bit more attention to what’s going on around them, these tragedies might not be as frequent or as severe.
Man this is tough to watch.. so many people , but no one noticed or cared.. had something similar happen at my local swimming pool a couple of years ago and the kid passed away sadly. Proper swimming and rescue technique is definitely something that should be taught from a young age. We luckily got the option to do rescue classes (for free) at school
I don't think no one cared, people often times zone out others around them in public places.
@@CrowBarActual yea I agree I don't think 'no one cared' I myself am in the healthcare field and didn't realize that drowning looked like this as I haven't seen it myself. If I was at a pretty busy hotel pool on vacation & was tending to my kids or speaking to my husband I can't say I 100% would have noticed this child either. His head is under water & he can't yell for help and it did look like he was just doing front flips and swimming at a glance, of course with the full video you can tell as we are all focused on him but if I were there and not paying attention fully I see how it could be missed. I am a mother though so I do pay more attention that these people did I am sure so I may notice something not quite right but it was also night time it seems so that likely didn't help either. Poor child though, sad his mother was at the spa and not aware of where her child was. 😟 Glad he made it though!
@@pete5516 Have you ever been to a public swimming pool with kids? It's absolutely normal for kids to spin around under water and even play floater. It's not obvious what happens here if you merely take a brief glimpse at the kid. I doubt that pool is filled exclusively with idiots or sociopaths. Odds are all of them have simply been unaware the kid struggles.
And to be fair every time he was in some peoples line of view the way he was moving just looked like he was swimming. Then you get to the end and it’s like wtf
This is heartbreaking. The fact that he was so close to saving himself too. And people being so oblivious!
Tough to watch - so happy he is okay. This video is an important reminder to check on those around you. I try do it with every diver I encounter whether in my group or not. 👌
If I don't see a kid with the head out of the water at least once every 30 seconds I'd assume drowning.
It's better to check than to have this happen. It could have been fatal.
That's so tough to watch. This is absolutely something everyone needs to know and be able to recognize. It's so unbelievably easy for kids to drown in what seems like a safe water level. This is why 5 gallon buckets have a drowning warning on them.
and yet the Finnish govt prosecuted the mother for not being there to save her child but none of the other people. if they couldnt be expected to know if the child was in danger how could they Legally* expect the mother to know
@@Jeremy_the_unfallible_n-a in the US, you commonly can't swim in a pool alone unless you're at least 14. It's ultimately the parent's fault for letting that happen, and strangers cannot be expected to fill that role. Even if they knew the kid was drowning (let's say they're at a not so calm ocean beach instead of a pool), they have no duty to assist. I'm sure they would have had they been more aware. It's a very unfortunate event 😕
@@sudokode yea you got a point. i wonder if she was present at the time and it still happened the same way, if she would be charged
@@Jeremy_the_unfallible_n-a that I think would come down to a jury and either video or eyewitness testimony. Very likely she still would have been convicted because like I said it's ultimately her responsibility. If the child can't stay above the water in any part of the pool, there'd definitely be questions about why she wasn't monitoring closely enough. Did the child usually go underwater when swimming? If not, why didn't you intervene? Accidents happen of course but pools are heightened risk, especially when unguarded
When I'm in the water, I enjoy myself as much as anyone else but I still keep a watch out for everyone else in the water I can see. The amount of kids and even a few adults I've helped or even pulled out that were in trouble is insane. It dosnt take much effort just to keep an eye on other swimmers around you.
When I was 13, and was swimming for the local county team one of the girls, who obviously was an amazing swimmer, could literally swim miles. Had a seizure in the pool, everyone else was focused on thier training because they knew everybody in the water were great swimmers but that dosnt help in a sudden medical situation. I bumbed into her seconds after she went under as I was following her up the pool, so I got her to the side pretty quick. I was also part of the Friday nights life saving club at the same pool. From that moment on, I've always kept an eye on those around me in the water and wished others would do the same for me.
That hurt my heart, so sad to see. I can recognise that he’s struggling
When I take my nieces and nephews swimming, it’s hectic, I’m watching all of them all at once, ready to act, and I’m watching everyone else’s too
Woody, I agree. I was a professional lifeguard for several years, a competitive swimmer for a decade, and loved water ever since childhood. I always wanted to be underwater just tooling around, floating underneath and facedown just enjoying the water. Watching this kid, I would not have necessarily recognized that he was drowning until he stopped moving completely. It honestly looked like he was just playing. I think your point about essentially “pattern recognition” is spot on-people can look without seeing, and see without recognizing a problem. Every one of us could have been the person who stood there in our own mind while he floated by. We should all take this as a lesson to be vigilant, and if you’re not sure if someone is ok, check!! I’ve had people tap me to make sure I’m ok when I’m just floating facedown enjoying the water, and I’ll never be offended. If I ever needed help, they would have saved my life.
The sad part about drowning is people think its a joke.
As a preteen I had a much younger girl start drowning in the pool with me. Luckily her dad knew what to look for (just bobbing up and down without really being able to breathe, nothing histrionic, no splashing, just very quiet). He had to giver her mouth to mouth and everything. I've never been able to forget that. It's scary now too in this climate of paranoia that we're afraid to do *anything* with someone else's kid because what if their parent decides we're a creep? So we don't even watch them.
This hits harder than anything you’ve done thus far. Great awareness video.
That was hard to watch but so important to share, huge thanks to you both for what you do. Had a close call with my daughter when she was 3 or 4 in a pool, happens so quickly and silently and is so easy to miss, when my girl went under there were 5 of us within a couple of meters of her and no one noticed, thankfully my wife spotted her on the bottom, yelled at me and I ducked down with my 1.5yr old and pulled her out, was extremely happy to have 2 screaming kids at the side of the pool after one of the scariest moments I've had. Thanks again and much love from NZ. Cheers.
This is horrible. Where are the parents? My heart breaks.
When I was 9 or 10 I was at a hotel swimming. I'm a literal fish and have been swimming since I popped out of my mom. While I was swimming around I noticed this other girl a little younger than me. She just looked like she was swimming out of control doing flips and I just felt like something was wrong. So I went down and got her and her parents immediately rushed over and pulled her out. I always wondered if she was okay and I was just overreacting or if she actually needed help. Better safe than sorry. But by her reaction and her parents... she wasn't okay and I'm glad I did what I did.
As for people ignoring him when he was completely not moving, I'm not sure if anyone brought it up, but you guys have to remember that some kids do that for fun. We used to play dead in the pool and just float to see how long we could hold our breaths. So, if I did not see a kid struggling and then go lifeless, and just saw them floating, I think my default thought would be that that is what they are doing. But I'm glad I watched this so that I won't make that assumption again, and not be worried about messing up their record to check up on them.
I agree. My kids love doing this!
I probably wouldn’t have noticed because I’d be busy watching my own kids and, if I glanced over, I would have thought this kid was doing the same thing. And I would assume his guardian was watching him.
Now, I’m going to be trying to watch all the kids!
The reason I never allow my kids to play dead. I've reprimanded them for that.
I would have thought it was some shit head kid thinking they were funny trying to scare an adult grabbing at my leg. But you are giving too much credit to even think they even saw him. You're watching this as almost a birds eye view. The lighting is not perfect in this and when your head is at water Level good luck seeing a kid a couple feet to the right of you
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i like to see you dont instant judge but you actually think about it.
I always admire how you guys discuss such a topic or video because of education. You never want to exploit the drama for views, just pure education.
You guys are amazing.
Really appreciate this video to demonstrate how easily this can happen even with a room full of people. It's harsh but sometimes it can take an example like this to get people to realize the importance of swim preparedness and being vigilant in these situations. Much appreciated.
You guys would be surprised how unattended some kids are. I've almost died in this exact same way; a cousin noticed me and had to pull me out and save me. My mother and some extended family never knew because they weren't watching me swim alone in the pool in the backyard.
Tough to watch, but also so important for people to see. I teach preschool and everytime we get towards the end of the school year I start sending out water safety info to parents. In my region, someone almost always drowns the first warm weekend of spring because all the water is still cold and fed by snowmelt. A few years ago, a super athletic teenager with strong swimming skills didn't wear a life jacket and drowned in the river due to shock from the cold.
That just broke my heart. 😭
I have young ones and I am always on high alert around water. Thanks for sharing and commenting. Hopefully this will cause greater awareness and save lives.
I had to look away because I had no idea how long he was going to be under water. I am a huge advocate for safety in all scenarios, but especially with pools! So thankful he survived, but I’m sure he has trauma to recover from as well. I could feel the desperation! Thank you for spreading awareness.
i love watching your video's guys , you are always great in the info you give and help you supply to all diver's and none driver's, but this video REALLY got to me, i am not ashamed to admit this but i have just spent the last 5 hours crying my eyes open over it. as a 43 year old father , i can not even begin to imagine the pain that poor little soul went though before what happened , and my heart goes out to all the people that love him, "sorry if some people hate me for saying this " but i can not under stand what was more important to the people that were ment to be watching him , as a parent/carer i know first hand you 100% always ALWAYS have a eye on a child no matter were you are or what you are doing. And it being a pool means it should have been at the top of there minds. I am soooo happy he made it, but he should never have been un-watched in the first place.
I think a good way to summarize Woody's point would be to say that people aren't looking for someone drowning when they're at the pool and they'll easily pass over someone who is at a glance
Yes. I am not there to watch someone else's kid. The number of times some e little kid has bumped into me or grabbed my leg in a pool thinking they were funny is many. I probably would have just swam away
I’ve seen many videos of ppl drowning and nobody ever notices it.
That was horrific! The amount of people that were completely oblivious. That’s one of my fears and when I’m in a pool and kids are going under it always gives me such anxiety and I watch till I see them come back up but you can’t watch everything and minutes go by quick. I know I watch my child like a hawk but I might be so preoccupied with my own child that I wouldn’t notice others floating around me. Thanks for sharing this because it will make me even more cautious. I’m going to share this video so other parents are more aware hopefully.
This is terrifying, and it hits a close spot for me, since a similar thing happened to me. When I was about 7-8 years old, I had an incident while playing in the river with my parents that nearly took my life (suddenly fell into a hole in the ground, my father miraculously saved me). I didn't know how to swim, and I realized how scary water can be, so I decided I wanted to try and learn to swim. I went to take swimming lessons.
I was still learning the basics, I still had no ability to stay afloat on my own (plus, I was noticeably scared, given my previous experience), so I was using a noodle to stay afloat. The thing slipped away from my hands, and I immediately started to plummet down to the bottom of the pool. I thrashed desperately, moved around as much as I could, trying to scream, etc. Nobody noticed. The pool was full of other kids, there was an instructor, some parents were watching, yet nobody noticed anything. I'm not sure how long I spent underwater, but it was long enough that I honestly thought that was it. It's just so scary, that moment of chaos. The place can be packed full, yet when you need it the most, you're on your own, everyone around you is oblivious.
Thank you for spreading awareness regarding these situations. I feel like in my head, I was making a huge ruckus while trying to stay afloat, but just as you said, in reality, these things can go way more unnoticed than they should. This information can save lives.
Additionally, I'd like to thank you for all the awesome content that you upload as well. My near-drowning experience made me develop a strong psychological aversion to water, even having water on my face feels extremely uncomfortable, and everything related to going underwater simply feels like nightmare fuel. You guys have helped me get over some of those fears, and learn about things I'd otherwise never discover on my own, so thank you, keep it up, you guys rock!
This is the worst thing I've ever seen. As a father I am SHOCKED at the reactions around that poor little boy. I guess maybe they were worried about intervening and the parent's getting weird? They didn't notice how long he was under water? I don't know but i am shocked. Every time I've been near water with my kids I am in the water RIGHT there with them and constantly watching. SO relieved to hear he survived but this is still just AWFUL. I can tell you as someone who has drowned, it is the scariest thing I've ever experienced and can't imagine being so young while experiencing that. My heart just can't handle these sorts of things
I don't find many things hard to watch but that was tough. I don't know about other places in the world but in Australia most primary schools do swimming lessons (ether free or very affordable) and on top of that there are signs everywhere at public swimming pools that say to NEVER take your eyes off of your kids in the pool. I've seen a lifeguard chew out a mum for staring at her phone the whole time her kids were in the pool. So they're pretty strict about it over here.
That’s nice. I didn’t have swimming lessons as a kid. Drowned in front of my parents. They didn’t notice. Another kid saved my life. Even when that happened my parents still didn’t understand what almost happened.
non of those adults should leave that building without serious injuries
Man, I *almost* regret watching this one but I'm glad I stuck around til the end. There's alot of lessons to be learned from this.
This video is so incredibly disturbing. The women w/ a child to the right sees something is wrong & she just backs away.. so sad. I have a pool & 2 small grandkids that I always worry about drowning & will know what to do if an accident happens. Thank god he made it
I am the same way gus. I was at a swimming area at a dam (no life guard) with my nephew and there were about 4 kids who were between 3 and 9 who's grandma had taken them or mom who were sitting up on the grass area. imo to far away from the water if something happened. My nephew was about 6 and I was so nervous about these children who honestly weren't being watched. Their grandma was reading or the mom was sun bathing and it looked like she was asleep. My nephew cant swim but we plan to get him into lessons soon so I was right there the whole time. My anxiety for these kids was so high that I decided to basically wrangle them up and have them start playing together so I could watch them easier. It took over an hour for the grandma to even notice I was watching her 2 grandkids. Shed come over to tell them to stop bothering me, I assured her I wasnt bothered and the kids were just having fun.
When I was young my grandma had made sure that I had swimming lessons, all her children and grandchildren had swimming lessons. When she was 13 her bestfriend drowned in the river and she was terrified of being in water that was more then hip deep. Heck she didnt even like it when her face got wet in the shower, she always kept a washcloth to dry her face when it got wet. When we were little she basically drilled it into us that even though we could swim we had to be safe and watch out for eachother. (My niece, cousin, and I were all around the same age.) Now my grandma never wanted us to be afraid of the water but she did make it very clear that it could be dangerous.
I appreciate you guys do videos like this it has major teaching benefits and forces viewers to face reality that not everything is all sunshine and rainbows. It also helps some of us non-lifeguard people learn to recognize some signs of a struggle.
Tears, as an individual that had two near drownings as a child, now an advanced diver with sidemount certification. Im glad the child is alive and hopefully has had some swim training. Also makes me feel all the more vigilant while near water and children
That’s disturbing as a mother I am always scanning the pool for kids in trouble. How people couldn’t see the signs breaks my heart
Seeing it, watching it from a camera or lifeguard perch is much different than passively looking every now and then. As a kid and adult I constantly see how long I can hold my breath, how? By being lifeless, face down, for over a minute and I do it over and over again. No one has ever come to see if I was okay during that time. This is very difficult to spot passively.
Especially when your head is at water level.
Exactly! Most would have thought he was doing that. Also he did a couple flips. Most people it look like he is playing.
This was really hard to watch. 😢 Thank God the little boy made it. I hope lessons were learned by everyone. Thanks for the hard work you guys put in on these videos. 👍
You're so right about keeping an eye on people. Kids and the elderly or disabled are instantly the ones I'll watch more carefully.
I also have no shame offering a hand pre-emptively and being rejected because I'd rather have offered and they don't need it than the other option.
Also thanks for the tip about drowning and CPR. I would have 100% went for chest compressions first.
I remember watching this years ago and crying watching this poor child reaching out to people for help.
I got to say this video had my anxiety going through the roof up until the point where I heard he survived and I know it's been said so many times but I cannot believe the parents would let their child who they know cannot swim stay at the pool all by himself and just go do their own thing I don't even have children and I know that's insane
I have a 2-year-old in swimming classes right now. The bulk of his instruction has centered around the fundamentals of self-preservation. How to climb out of the pool on the side. How to roll on to his back. How to blow bubbles to expel air and water. She obviously had an outstanding swimming teacher as well. Shout out to Miss Samantha.
Geez I nearly drowned with a pool full of relatives when I was 7 or 8 years old. It wasn’t stressful, I didn’t even know that I couldn’t breathe, it was really peaceful and blue. I could see people jumping in, and the bubbles they made. I’ve got no memory of trying to get my head back up above the water, I don’t even know how I managed to get under the water, I remember I was on the steps then next thing I wasn’t, I was completely under it.
My dad jumped in and saved me, he just had this emotion take over and knew something was drastically wrong. This is so full on 😢 Watching him struggle like that was terrifying
I almost drowned next to my parents and they didn’t do anything :/ another kid saved me.
In my lifeguard course my instructor said that if you see someone having an issue to never assume they are playing or horsing around and take everything seriously because it’s the one time you assume they are playing that they could be having an issue and time is incredibly important.. my heart broke watching this
i had a few close calls as a kid and i can attest its not like the movies 😂 you usually cant splash hard or yell to anybody because your drowning. if you can't get above water you cant say anything to anybody or call for help.
i remember one time at the pool i just kept sinking in the deep end and i struggled to the wall panicked and gasping.
As someone who feels a social anxiety and recognize behaviors as much as i dont try to. This is crazy. Such a small fucking pool. Absolutely mind boggling how not a single soul noticed anything .
Its sooo hard to understand how nobody noticed. This really showed me some awareness of how difficult it can be to identify someone in trouble. Thank God he made it.
thats because you are watching him drowning from the begining and you know he is actually drowning (your eyes and mind is focused only on that drowning kid) ... also the time flows different from everyone and if you watching someone who is in trouble and all you can do is watching how it ends, the time flow for you very slow... but if you have fun then 4 min flows like instant. Also some people are affraid to do anything to avoid awkard situation when theyer help was not need ( the kid could have just fun holding his breath )... its hard to guess what are they thinking about but also its hard to guess what would YOU do if you are in that situation. ( i know most people are like... i would be the one messiash who can fix everything and save everyone but reality is something else)
Same thing happened in my city about a month ago. The mother left her three year old son unattended in a community pool and he ended up drowning and dying in front of people who never noticed.
Omg! Thank you for sharing! It is so hard to spot drowning!👀 I’m like Gus, I have a huge fear of drowning and choking, I always watch kids and others around me especially when I don’t see parents around. My husband thinks I’m crazy 😅 I’m so glad he made it , that’s amazing !!!♥️
This is so distressing to see the lack of awareness and help! Thank you guys for spreading awareness of this issue, I don’t think it’s covered enough! My poor grandad had the unfortunate situation of finding a drown child on the way home from the local shop, they had a pool out the front and he was unsupervised, awful situation.
I am literally crying. This is so terrible that nobody was watching. Nobody noticed this child dying. Wow!
Wow what a crazy video! This is a pure textbook example of what is known in psychology as the Bystander Effect, A phenomenon that is actually terrifyingly common. People walking by (or in this case swimming) others in danger, tend to leave them in danger because they believe other witnesses will help out. It is very selfish, in a way that the people who watch and do nothing assume less responsibility because they haven’t done anything to make the situation worse even if the reality is vice versa. Appreciate the reaction and commentary, you guys make me want to take up scuba diving more and more!
No, I don’t think it is. The bystander effect is when people KNOW something is going on, but don’t act because they assume someone else will. Here, it’s very clear that nobody realized there was anything amiss at all until he literally bumped into the woman who pulled him out.
Bless that he survived. It was so gut-wrenching to see how he was just drifting around. I'd never just swim around whenever at the apartment complex, I'd usually stay on the edge if others joined in, especially with kids. I was a kid myself, but my mother often told us not to assume everyone is ok and that it doesn't hurt to check on someone even more so when it involves pools. I'm so glad he survived but also sad there have been other children who didn't. Take care at the pools.
The adults that were standing around did nothing should be charged criminally also
The lady by the steps was actually the one to notice the boy when he was floating near the person who ended up picking him up. She stood there for like 20 seconds watching then took her kid and walked somewhere else for a bit, then came back and i think she may have said somrthing to the person who picked him up. She shouldve immediately alerted someone to check on that kid. Or put her kid down and go over herself. What the heck!
The hotel should be held accountable for not having a lifeguard.
Why? It was the parent’s responsibility to ensure the safety of their child.
@ You can. That’s the way it is at hotels and motels all over the country. Hence the “NO LIFEGUARD ON DUTY” signs by their pools.
Been watching your channel since you guys had 1,000 subscribers! Keep up the good work keep fighting the good fight don’t worry about what others think of your opinions!