#to rescue a nonswimmer

[oldmke]

In years past, people looked to the Milwaukee River as a place to swim. And Bechstein's was one of three widely known swimming schools built about the deep water above the North Ave. dam. According to one Milwaukee history, Bechstein's had an elaborate system of enclosed docks, some of which were used for private instruction. One of them was an area known as the "baby water" where nonswimmers could splash and get the feel of the river. After a rain, however, children was ordinarily played there in safety, would find the water over their heads. The lifeguards at Bechstein's wore street clothes - shirts with long sleeves, long trousers, shoes and caps with visors. Responding to an emergency, they would dive into the water fully clothed, rescue the children after the ducking, and, for them, it was all in a day's work. Photograph courtesy Arthur Anello and information provided by the Milwaukee Public Library local history collection.

#Milwaukee #Wisconsin

[sittingonalog]

...idiots... 😒 

#my art #one piece #straw hat pirates #chopper #brook #luffy #usopp #zoro #sanji #how often do the nonswimmers jump in #to rescue a nonswimmer #? too often #AND I'm always amused by it #plus I wanted to draw underwater swimming #and underwater coloring #sanji vinsmoke #roronoa zoro #monkey d. luffy #nakama #my stuff #OP fanart #and in case anyone wonders why I didn't use Franky #since he is probably the best swimmer next to Sanji #its because of composition

[wiz-witch]

Dumb idea: in a group of four, one of the characters can’t touch water, and another can’t swim. So when a fifth character is thrown into a river while barely conscious and there’s a villain they need to fight, let’s make the nonswimmers go to help the character about to drown while the two that could rescue him busy themselves with the villain.

Wtf?!

#seriously what? #i get it added to the tension of the scene #but... #sigh

[whisperthatruns]

      Eenee Menee Mainee Mo!           —Rudyard Kipling, “A Counting-Out Song,"    in Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides, 1923           The woman with cheerleading legs has been left for dead. She hot paces a roof, four days, three nights, her leaping fingers, helium arms rise & fall, pulling at the week- old baby in the bassinet, pointing to the eighty- two-year-old grandmother, fanning & raspy in the New Orleans Saints folding chair.                      Eenee Menee Mainee Mo!           Three times a day the helicopter flies by in a low crawl. The grandmother insists on not being helpless, so she waves a white hand- kerchief that she puts on and takes off her head toward the cameraman and the pilot who remembers well the art of his mirrored-eyed posture in his low-flying helicopter: Bong Son, Dong Ha, Pleiku, Chu Lai. He makes a slow Vietcong dip & dive, a move known in Rescue as the Observation Pass.           The roof is surrounded by broken-levee water. The people are dark but not broken. Starv- ing, abandoned, dehydrated, brown & cumulous, but not broken. The four-hundred-year-old anniversary of observation begins, again—                      Eenee Menee Mainee Mo!                      Catch a— The woman with pom-pom legs waves her uneven homemade sign:                      Pleas Help  Pleas and even if the e has been left off the Pleas e do you know simply by looking at her that it has been left off because she can’t spell (and therefore is not worth saving) or was it because the water was rising so fast there wasn’t time?                      Eenee Menee Mainee Mo!                      Catch a— a—           The low-flying helicopter does not know the answer. It catches all this on patriotic tape, but does not land, and does not drop dictionary, or ladder.           Regulations require an e be at the end of any Pleas e before any national response can be taken.           Therefore, it takes four days before the national council of observers will consider dropping one bottle of water, or one case of dehydrated baby formula, on the roof where the e has rolled off into the flood,                      (but obviously not splashed loud enough) where four days later not the mother, not the baby girl, but the determined hanky waver, whom they were both named for, (and after) has now been covered up with a green plastic window awning, pushed over to the side right where the missing e was last seen.

                     My mother said to pick                      The very best one!

What else would you call it, Mr. Every-Child-Left-Behind. Anyone you know ever left off or put on an e by mistake? Potato   Po tato e           In the future observation helicopters will leave the well-observed South and fly in Kanye-West-Was-Finally-Right formation. They will arrive over burning San Diego.           The fires there will be put out so well. The people there will wait in a civilized manner. And they will receive foie gras and free massage for all their trouble, while there houses don’t flood, but instead burn calmly to the ground. The grandmothers were right about everything.           People who outlived bullwhips & Bull Connor, historically afraid of water and routinely fed to crocodiles, left in the sun on the sticky tar- heat of roofs to roast like pigs, surrounded by forty feet of churning water, in the summer of 2005, while the richest country in the world played the old observation game, studied the situation: wondered by committee what to do; counted, in private, by long historical division; speculated whether or not some people are surely born ready, accustomed to flood, famine, fear.                      My mother said to pick                      The very best one                      And you are not   it!           After all, it was only po’ New Orleans, old bastard city of funny spellers. Nonswimmers with squeeze-box accordion accents. Who would be left alive to care?

Nikky Finney, “Left,” Head-Off & Split (TriQuarterly Books, 2011)

#nikky finney #left #head off & split #poetry #anti black racism for ts #hurricane katrina for ts #flood for ts #fire for ts

[awkwardlyamusing-blog]

Drowning is leading cause of accidental death for young children. Here’s how to prevent it.

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Drowning is leading cause of accidental death for young children. Here’s how to prevent it.

Jenny Bennett found her toddler floating in her family’s pool, face-down, fully clothed. The 18-month-old had crawled through their home’s pet door. An ER nurse, Bennett started CPR and rescue breathing on little Jackson while her husband called 911.

Jackson was declared brain-dead after four days on life support.

“People automatically assume it happens to bad or neglectful parents,” Bennett said.

She spent two years going over and over the mistakes she made and finally decided to go public as an advocate for swim safety in her community of Tomball, Texas.

Bennett thought she had taken the right precautions. She had two doors separating the house from the pool: a storm door over the back door and tight cover on the pet door. “We understood a doggy door was a risk for him to make it to the pool. We made it very clear that the dog door remains locked.”

But that day was unusual. She had to pick her husband up from work after his truck broke down and grabbed her three kids. With no time to let the dogs out, she opened the dog door and left the house. “I was too impatient to wait for them.”

When the family returned, she forgot it was open.

“There was a lapse in supervision. We thought he was safe upstairs with his sisters.”

Drowning is highly preventable

The Bennetts’ story is not unusual. Nearly 1,000 children died from drowning in the United States in 2017. It’s the leading cause of accidental death for children 1 through 4. More than 8,000 others nearly died by drowning, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

“Drowning is fast, silent, and can happen even when it is not swim time,” said Dr. Benjamin Hoffman, chairman of the academy’s Council on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention, in a statement. “It happens to real families, families with good, attentive parents who never thought it could happen to them.”

There are ways to keep it from happening to your child, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They call it the “many layers of protection to prevent drowning.”

‘Close, constant, attentive supervision’ around water

Parents or caregivers should never — not even for a moment — leave young children alone or in the care of another child anywhere near pools, spas, wading pools or bathtubs, even if a lifeguard is present. Most young children who drowned in pools had been out of sight for five minutes or less and were in the care of one or both parents at the time, according to a study by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The same goes for any standing water. Toddlers can drown in just an inch or two of water. Caregivers should also empty any water from containers, such as pails, buckets and kiddie pools, immediately after use. The rule is that an adult with swim skills should literally be within one arm’s length, providing “constant touch supervision.”

Bennett says this is where she failed. “You lose sight of your child. You think they’re somewhere safe when they’re really not, or you get distracted by a phone call at the pool.”

The biggest danger is the lack of barriers to prevent access to the water

If you have a pool, you should completely enclose it with a 4-foot-high fence on all sides, separating it from the house and yard. The fence should have self-closing and self-latching gates. The American Academy of Pediatrics says such fences prevent more than half of swimming pool drownings of young children.

The academy is now urging states and local municipalities to pass laws requiring all pools to have these fences. In fact, 69% of children younger than 5 who drowned were not expected to be at or in the pool at the time, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Bennett says she wished she had put up a pool fence. “We could’ve done more.”

Remove toys from pools after play

Bennett wonders whether her son was reaching for a toy in the pool and fell in. The group Water Safety USA, a consortium of nonprofits and governmental agencies, recommends that all toys be removed from bodies of water when they’re not being played with.

Parents, caregivers, older children and pool owners should learn CPR

Immediate resuscitation, even before the arrival of EMS personnel, “is the most effective means to improve outcomes in the event of a drowning incident,” the American Academy of Pediatrics says.

Learn swimming survival skills

Bennett says she enrolled Jackson in traditional parent-child swim lessons, but the training didn’t include key survival skills like how to roll onto the back and float.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends swim lessons for many children starting at age 1. The decision to start water-survival skills training or swim lessons at an early age “must be individualized on the basis of the child’s frequency of exposure to water, emotional maturity, physical and cognitive limitations and health concerns related to swimming pools.”

The academy says a swim program must ensure that children have basic water safety skills and give them respect for the water.

Children should learn how to tread water, float and stay by the shore or the side of the pool.

A study in the journal JAMA Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine found formal swimming lessons reduced the likelihood of childhood drowning by 88%.

Wear a life jacket

The pediatrics group recommends that children always wear life jackets when boating or near bodies of water, including nonswimmers and children who know how to swim. More than two-thirds of all boating fatalities are from drownings, and 90% of those drowning victims were not wearing life jackets, according to the BoatUS Foundation.

Beware of pool drains

Teach your children never to play or swim near drains or suction outlets. The nonprofit Safe Kids Worldwide says there are serious dangers to drain entanglement and entrapment.

Spreading Jackson’s legacy

Bennett has made it her mission to spread the message of water safety. She lectures about what happened to her son. She’s created a pamphlet of swim safety tips now given out to families when babies are born at HCA Houston Healthcare, her employer. And she established a national parents’ group, Parents Preventing Childhood Drowning, to spread the word.

She hopes everyone will take these precautions in the name of her son, Jackson, who would’ve been 4½ this summer.

“I’ve already lost a part of my heart. We thought he was so special. There was just something about him. I thought he was going to be really important some day. This is how he’s going to be important: me speaking out.”

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