Hi, with two or even more person in the water this is the only possible way I can imagine right now to deal with such a situation without taking a huge risk for yourself. If you have no life guard training and know the tricks and techniques how to handle panicking swimmers it might be also the best way to deal with a single person. I did a course more than 10 years ago, and at the end I wasn't sure if I would be able to handle a desperate victim. A final test with a "drowning" waterball player brought us back to reality -most of us made it barely back out of the pool-. After such a long time without practicing these skills I am pretty sure that it would be very hard or even impossible for me to rescue somebody with bare hands, and for sure there would be a pretty high risk for my own life. Wearing a pfd, having a kayak, and other floating stuff might make it easier, but still a though job. I hope we will get good and lots of feedback in this topic, since it could happen to all of us that we are unexpected confronted with drowning people. Then it might be very helpfull to have at least played with such a scenario in theory and have a plan or strategy in mind. Looking forward to learn more Ulli BTW: How many of us have some kind of first aid training? Pulling people out of the water might be only the first step. CPR could be the next step. Do you think you would be able to do it? I think I probably should fresh up on this. My last first aid /CPR class was also at least 10 years ago. Ulli Hoeger Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada uhoeger_at_is.dal.ca web://is.dal.ca/~uhoeger/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Aug 17 2000 - 15:07:45 PDT
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