One of the blogs I read fairly regularly is Salty John (http://saltyjohn.blogspot.co.uk) and last year John highlighted a very informative article on Instinctive Drowning Response
He's just reminded his readership of the salient points and I make no bones about nicking the information and posting it here - the more people know about the facts the better
John covers it so much better than I can in his article at http://saltyjohn.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/drowning-deadly-calmness.html
In a nutshell, if someone in the water is quiet, upright and not shouting, yelling, waving their arms etc, THAT'S a drowning person not the fella splashing about and making a big fuss like you see in films and on TV
Read up on it and you may be surprised, as I was, on how different the reality of drowning is from the popular misconceptions
It may just save a life one day
He's just reminded his readership of the salient points and I make no bones about nicking the information and posting it here - the more people know about the facts the better
John covers it so much better than I can in his article at http://saltyjohn.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/drowning-deadly-calmness.html
In a nutshell, if someone in the water is quiet, upright and not shouting, yelling, waving their arms etc, THAT'S a drowning person not the fella splashing about and making a big fuss like you see in films and on TV
Read up on it and you may be surprised, as I was, on how different the reality of drowning is from the popular misconceptions
It may just save a life one day
Have seen this before but is worth reading again.
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