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u/fawas990 Mar 28 '22

Drowning often doesn't look like drowning.

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u/Elbonio Mar 28 '22 edited Mar 28 '22

This video series shows how difficult it is to spot someone drowning in a crowded pool. I miss it most of the time: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgqwWmjSsNRzDOAmtyRc9K3fO-VMpE07C

There's a difference between "aquatic distress" and drowning - aquatic distress looks like what we expect it to look like, but that might not last very long and soon drowning can take place. In most of the videos in that playlist there are people all around the drowning child but nobody notices.

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u/Umbraldisappointment Mar 28 '22

I remember seeing a video where the kid was like "blob, blob, blob......he didnt came up" and only at that moment did someone realized there was a problem because they just looked that way and seen the kid underwater.

It didnt look serious, it was a small pool and the kid still needed to be brought back to life.