[DaBigNob]

This is just fucking hilarious to watch over and over again!!! Thanks for making it a sticky

[DaBigNob]

It's rockfish season in India!

[gimlet]

Originally Posted by bigsnail34 ↗

Former lifeguard, CPR instructor (in college), and certified rescue diver here. If an adult too big to manhandle is in an open body of water and flailing like these poor bastards, a trained lifeguard can use the "nuclear option", metaphorically speaking.

Basically, you swim up to them, take a deep breath, and when they grab you, you go ragdoll and let them pull you under the water. Because you are floating serenely and they are exhausting every muscle they have while their heart races, they will run out of air long before you. When they stop struggling and release their grip on you, you spring into action, pull them to shore, and set about getting the water out of their lungs before their frontal lobe starts dying.

I would like to reiterate that you should never try this unless you are trained and very comfortable in the water. So many people drown trying to save others; you have to be prepared if you make an attempt. Otherwise, your best bet is to get a long stick and try to corral their corpse toward the shore, so resources aren't wasted looking for it.

Ronald Reagan was a lifeguard on the river that runs thru Dixon, Illinois IIRC. He claimed to have like 50+ saves. I suspect many of them were girls who feigned distress so they would get 'rescued' by Ronnie and get their tits fondled. He was a strapping oversexed Irish bloke in his day, kind of like Errol Flynn.

Anyway, I was told by my mom who was a trained lifeguard in the 1940's that it was dangerous but you could try to 'cross chest carry' a drowning person. Maybe before the 'nuclear option' was invented.

Maybe a donkey punch to the head of the drowning followed by the carry would work...

[dtice]

i just don't understand. lay back and RELAX. the human body will float. jhc

[Bletch]

Definitely one of the most eerie and disturbing videos here. I can’t understand how they went in knowing they couldn’t swim.

[Sharon]

Thanks for this unusual case

[Hartlineisafag]

[jbell0129]

Un fucking reallllllllllll.....how do you laugh and get in water and have NO clue how to swim.....the dumbest shit I have ever seen on this site (decision-making wise)

[Dynastyballer13]

Wow just relax. This reminds me of the time both my legs and feet cramped up while swimming in a river that had a current. I panicked at first, but realized that was stupid. So, I called out to my cousin who pulled me to shore while i remained calm and still. Needless to say ALWAYS remain calm or you will die. And we're both great swimmers, but anything can happen if the circumstances fall together freakishly.

[b0g]

To me it looks like being caught by the icy cold water which often starts from 25-50 cm under the surface. You don't see it. You have to know how deep the pond really is.
You have never experienced that icy sub surface dip?
Did u see the steep terrain?
The cold water stays on the bottom longer than surface water.
It could be an area with (underwaterlevel) caves where cold water runs from icy deep reservoirs just to mitigate salt or temperature differences.
They immediately started grasping for another, I think cos they had poor resistance to live taking threats like ice cold water layers.
Lakes with (irregular) depths from 15 m and more are prone to this.

I've know several prof. rescue divers, and I know they fear those cold water layers in mostly still standing waters.