When You Were A Child Did You Ever Receive Drowning Lessons

If your grandpa and some unknown child are drowning, which would you save?

Concidering my grandfather's are dead: my grandfather.This may seem weird but I've wanted a human skull for years now but they're so expensive and I thought “if, once you save one, you can't get the other one then I might as well get the skull as I can treat it so it doesn't decay as quickly. Also it can be something of a family heirloom for my children.”I have concidered the child and, since I don't know them, why would I save them? Their parents are obviously irresponsible and this will teach them a lesson on keeping an eye on their child.

What would you do if you’re a mother of four and one kid is drowning and you don’t know how to swim?

I believe most parents including myself would try to save our child in a time of crisis. And in this case, probably die if there was a current, or the water was too deep to stand.Lifesaving is a skill. Getting within reach of a drowning person is dangerous. Of course we have popular beaches in Hawaii with hundreds, or even thousands of visitors. And at these highly utilized beaches, there should be lifeguards who are part of the fire department, preferably with jet skis. Volunteers on my island also started the practice of installing and using rescue tubes at beaches to save lives, which has spread to some other islands and states. Note the warnings.Rescue Tubes - Kauai Lifeguards AssociationWith hundreds or even thousands of bystanders, and loved ones present, why would local government pay to have fire department personnel standing by at such beaches? Why should a courageous bystander with a rescue tube who already aided a swimmer in distress wait for a lifeguard? Because having them is better. Bystanders who can swim is also better than the alternative.Why don't black Americans swim? - BBCSix young people died trying to save someone else. The original individual was saved by a passerby.This is not about race. (There are many commentaries about people of African heritage and swimming.) This is about how attempting a rescue without knowing how to swim can lead to further tragedy.

If you are at a public pool, and a child falls in and starts drowning, are you legally required to do something?

In the U.S. the answer is “no” you are not required to come to an injured persons’ aid unless you are in the position of having a special relationship with them. In your example, for instance, a lifeguard at the pool would have a special relationship with the child, as would the child’s parent or babysitter. (We’re talking legally here, not morally.)There is one proviso, however. Even if you are under no legal duty to assist, if you do start to assist you must act reasonably to complete your assistance. The reasoning for this is that if you start to save someone, they may lessen their efforts to save themselves and others may not come to their aid because you already have.Let’s say you’re walking down the beach and you see a swimmer obviously in trouble, flailing around in the water. Absent any special relationship with the swimmer, you can waive goodbye to them (legally, morally is another issue). But if you yell, “Hold on, I’m coming to save you!” and you rush into the water, you must act reasonably to continue to try and save the swimmer. “Reasonably” is a term of art in the law, but if you immediately jumped back out of the water because it was too cold, you probably haven’t acted reasonably. If you jumped in the water and then saw a Great White Shark between you and swimmer, acting reasonably would not require that you put your own life in that type of peril. Again, when you undertake to try and save the swimmer, you may cause him/her to lessen their own attempts to save themselves and you may cause other people in the area to refrain from rescue attempts because your’s is underway.

Swimming: Why do people drown?

If only it were that simple. To understand why most people drown even though they could easily float, look at how SCUBA divers drown: It's not from sinking. Most SCUBA divers drown...at the surface...with plenty of air in their tanks...with a buoyant life jacket (BC) on. A Novice panicked SCUBA divers can lose their mouth piece, then get tipped forward face down with the tank on their back and flail to exhaustion.The reason is similar to why people drown. They don't have the technique to coordinate keeping the mouth and nose above water so they are tipped forward, aspirating water until their oxygen gets so low or the carbon dioxide gets too high that they sink. Hence: Swim lessons. 80% of drowning victims have never had a single swim lesson. To prevent drowning: Early swim lessons, Life guard and parental vigilance, and leverage technology for monitoring, prevention and rescue.The answer to the physics question is simple. When you breathe out the human body is actually heavier than water so: you sink. Once you're underwater the only breathing in you can do is aspirating more and more water (not helping your buoyancy).A bit macabre I know, but after you start to decompose, gas producing bacteria cause you to float again so bodies are found floating--although it's a bit late for the victim.