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Can you post up a link from the local news about how you saved her, you getting her to shore and all?
All this time I figured you for a guy that wouldn't even get his shoes wet in a situation like that, and you got her in.

Good job Scott......you never really leave your old life behind do ya.......

Good job Scott. First for getting involved in a serious situation not directly related to your and second for knowing what to do and how to do it well.

Well they found his body this morning. He drowned a little after 3pm on Wednesday. Godspeed

That's a shame. Prayers for his family.

Kudos to you on saving the lady.

It's not like a swam to her, but thanks. I did give my wife my wallet in case it came to that.

You were willing to go in and save her, that says a lot about you. Kudos to you and the bartender for saving that womans life.

Damn smart!!

I did lifeguard training and a bit of life guarding when I was a kid. You learn real fast to never swim to rescue somebody unless there's no alternative. A lot of strong-swimmer lifeguards have been drowned by lousy swimmers.

Reach, throw, row, tow& go... In that order.

Yep, she was making it, especially after I told her to stop fighting the current. I know she wasn't coming in as fast as she would have liked but she was coming in nonetheless.

In the training I took to become certified I don't remember them telling us there was real danger in drowners climbing us if we knew what to do. It's scary to learn that may not be true.

Missed the part about no alternative did ya?

Yea, let them drown, but it was in '67 and any updates or pointers would be appreciated.

Excellent Scott.

If she was fighting the current then I wouldn't have had high expectations of the outcome without you there to tell her to go with the flow. Never know, but don't short yourself.

Looks like this issue came up in Wisconsin yesterday. Three boys, at least one of which was this woman's nephew, swam too far out into a lake and were struggling to keep their heads above water.

She swam out to help the boy and did manage to save the boy, but she drowned. One news snippet which I did not see repeated had a witness saying he kept pushing her under until finally she didn't come up.

I vividly remember being taught of that danger in Boy Scout lifesaving class. We were taught to approach from behind the victim and grab them in a way that they could not grab us - such as around the neck from behind. We were taught that if push came to shove we might have to knock the victim out to stop their struggling from drowning both of us.

For some reason, my life guard instructor thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever heard when we asked him, and he told us not to even think about trying it.

So while we got to practice on each other how to break choke holds and such, we never did practice punching each other in the head repeatedly while treading water.

WTF? Does it matter? Take Scott at his word. Scott does not strike me as an attention whore.

Can't say I've ever seen anyone prove him a liar either.

You are a brave man.

Dick is unable to understand the difference in helping people and not pizzing on him if he were on fire.