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MDUK0001 t1_jdh4qt5 wrote

Reply to comment by Bee_Hummingbird in Bravery medals for women who raced into 'rough, crazy' surf to save drowning girls by Sariel007

I was referring to this part: “They were nominated by Erin Danks, Violet's mum, who was at home when she received the call about the rescue.”

But I guess this means that one of the mothers was with them and the other at home, and that they are not sisters.

So in a way we are both right, but mainly you…

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Bee_Hummingbird t1_jdh4dtt wrote

Reply to comment by MDUK0001 in Bravery medals for women who raced into 'rough, crazy' surf to save drowning girls by Sariel007

>Article says the mother was at home…

"We were just having a little picnic at the beach with some girlfriends and this woman came up to us and was like, 'I can't swim and my girls are drowning,' and we just jumped into action," she said.

The girls were at Angels Beach near Ballina, an unpatrolled beach along a stretch of coastline popular with surfers"

Try again.

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lazytemporaryaccount t1_jdh2gn3 wrote

Reply to comment by Meowerinae in Bravery medals for women who raced into 'rough, crazy' surf to save drowning girls by Sariel007

To be fair, you don’t need to knock them unconscious, you just wait until they fall unconscious on their own from the whole “drowning” part. At least that’s what they taught us to do if it was too dangerous to approach someone. A lot of the rescue techniques where also specifically designed to grab people from behind/immobilize their arms for similar reasons.

Also I’ll never forget the instruction that if someone panicking / drowning does grab onto you to try to keep their head under water, don’t fight them and try to get to the surface. Instead stay calm and go down once holding onto you means going underwater, they’ll let go.

And as always 1) Reach (ie grab someone from a safe location/ reach out to them with something inflatable that they can latch onto) 2) Row (approach in a boat, particularly in open water) 3) Throw (an inflation device) THEN 4) Go

Going into the water after someone is dangerous and other options should be considered first, even for lifeguards. As a bystander, your first instinct may be to jump right in, but always look for other options.

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Ashjaeger_MAIN t1_jdh1a8u wrote

Reply to comment by yallxtrippin in 5 kids rescued from a Staten Island sewer system after they crawled into a tunnel and got lost by Sandstorm400

Where I live there are tons of old underground bunker/factories from ww2. There are tons of incidents where kids went in to play there and the things are several kilometers long and several stories deep. As far as we know all of them got out but noone knows if they are connected with any missing children's cases because they are so large and some areas can't be entered if you want to leave them again.

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doxiepowder t1_jdgz73c wrote

Reply to comment by _The_Floor_is_Lava_ in Almost every cat featured in viral Tik Tok posted by Kansas City animal shelter adopted by SpankAPlankton

I wish they would just institute sweeping privacy reform that forces all the apps mining our data to change (all of them, not just social media) instead of scapegoating a single foreign app that's no different than Facebook.

My wife works in digital marketing. Privacy is an illusion.

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Apt_5 t1_jdgvsx5 wrote

Reply to comment by _The_Floor_is_Lava_ in Almost every cat featured in viral Tik Tok posted by Kansas City animal shelter adopted by SpankAPlankton

TikTok and all of its impersonators should be banned. It is legitimately rotting everyone’s brains, especially youths which are its main user base. I don’t have it b/c I don’t like registering just to look at stuff (same w/ Pinterest) but I discovered Youtube shorts in the Summer and I definitely got hooked for a good few months. Too easy to just lay in bed and endlessly scroll until you notice the damn sun is coming up.

Edit: Meant to finish with “That’s Reddit’s job, damnit!”

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