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Lifeguard:"you can't swim here" child straight into the face of clear authority: "I can!". If you don't teach children respect you put them in many kinds of danger.
I'm watching this today because I went to canal swimming today with my 2 friends. Only I know how to swim. One of them inserted thermocol in his swimming costume so he can float. We two were doin 100 meters swimming from one point to the ropes. We did that many times. But, 2 of the thermocoal pieces got out of his underwear and he panicked. He grabbed my neck and we both went under. I somehow twisted his hand to push him up, someone else pulled him up because we were near the ropes. I was still 15 feet down without any air in my lungs in that canal, that was scary but I calmed myself and pulled me out of the water. I can't get it out of my head and unable to sleep.
I’ve seen the clip with Terry rescuing that girl a dozen times. I always notice that as soon as he pulls her upwards so she can catch a breath, she thanks him. So many adults don’t.
To be fair, a lot of people would be in shock after that. It's not necessarily a question of being polite, it's more so are they thinking about it in that moment? Chances are, a lot of those people thank them afterwards, when they're out of danger.
@@Kalani_Saiko thats fair, A life guard only came to my friend and I once in a rip. My friend was calling me for help and I, already being in the water maybe 5-10 meters closer to shore, went for him. But he's like 50 lbs heavier than me, although I am a stronger swimmer, I probably couldn't help him. The lifeguard was already on his way and got to him by the time I got to him myself. I might have thanked the lifeguard, I don't remember, but I also remember thinking it was unnecessary for me to have been picked up as well. So my ego might have gotten in the way from thanking him and I can imagine a lot of adults are like that too. I def think kids don't have the ego adults have when it comes to life and death situations.
@@Kalani_Saiko I've seen a few incidents where the people saved thought it was funny. One dude even decided to stand up and "surf" on the lifeguards board 🙄
@@a.geddes6201 i’m really sorry to hear that. I hope he knew the Lord and love to meet him in heaven one day he sure did a great thing by all those rescues when he was on earth what great man!
wait terry passed away? when did that happend (wow never thought I would get 100 likes) first time ever that has ever happened to me.(wow 300 likes to me that’s a lot of likes)
The first rescue of the deaf girls will stick with me for a long time. It never occurred to me what the experience of a deaf person in a scenario like the first would be. The poor grandmother was at such a disadvantage in letting the lifeguards know that her grandchildren were in trouble.
I am a good swimmer, swam before I could walk, but I totally underestimated the Australian water as a 21yr old, coming from Europe used to the Mediterranean Sea. It was seconds when I got into trouble. I even prayed for strength and somehow one foot touched the ground, gave me hope and power and I did make it with every last bit of strength and cried pure gratitude when I reached the beach. Ppl came running but I hardly noticed. My friends took my home and I slept for 14h. I will never forget how with every breath I tried to take, it was water I got instead of air. Never will I let my children be further in the water than I or my husband can stand always with them. No joke for sure. You guys are heroes. ❤
That's interesting to read. People don't seem to realise the sea is very different to ocean. Very very different. I grew up with the ocean. The sea seems like a swimming pool. Little pull of its own.
I know it's their job, but all these guys deserve medals. Too many irresponsible parents out there, and all of these saved children are lucky to be alive. If it weren't for these heroes, both the children's and their parents' lives would've been over. Thank you to these amazing lifeguards and their devotion to helping/saving others 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
being a lifeguard one of the worst parts of the job for me was dealing with parents who treat us like babysitters. so many times i saw kids that could’ve drowned or nearly did drown bc their parents weren’t paying attention. even the kids i teach swim lessons to i ALWAYS tell them if they are gonna take their kid to the beach, make them wear a life jacket until they are 12 years old. it sounds silly if you’re a strong swimmer like i was at that age but it’s so much better to be safe than sorry. that extra help to stay afloat could mean life or death.
@@jayleighbear As a father of two young children (7 and 11), I would never let them swim out in the sea alone. From past experience, I know how easy it is to get caught in an undercurrent and get pulled out. In one case, I had to swim out to see and into a different cove just to get back to land. Parents need to be more aware of these risks and pay attention to their children. It's lucky that these ignorant parents have heroes like you, otherwise, there would be tragic incidents all the time.
@@jayleighbear well, im a young teenager and i have done nippers, so has my younger brother. i'm doing water safety for next season of nippers but i have much respect for all lifeguards/lifesavers. my beach is pretty rough and many say that if you can swim or use a board at my beach, you can swim anywhere, but i couldnt imagine being a bondi lifeguard. and, when i have children they are learning to swim and doing nippers soon as they can to prevent these things happening. i'm lucky i have parents that i do to put me into swimming lessons and nippers.
These lifeguards have no idea of THAT FEELING you get when you think youre going to drown at the mercy of the ocean and youre on your last attempt at living only to be picked up and take a breath. Its so unreal. Its why their first words are always THANK YOU. Angels of the water if you ask me. ❤
I was a lifeguard for a time, and wound up only pulling someone out of the water once. It was quite the experience for both of us. I am glad that you are ok.
@@cottagehuntsville8195 Im glad you were there and saved someone. You will never be forgotten by them. Some peoples “job” is literally to be an angel for the rest of us. I’m 4’10” and I consider myself a strong swimmer. I grew up with pools. I was actually the “lifeguard” of the family. But a pool is nothing compare to the ocean. Those waves will knock anyone down only to drag them out and under. Its scary how strong even 3 inches of water can be.
@@RoninMilli You recalled me a memory. I'm not a lifeguard but a paramedic and mountain SAR operator. I was a rookie that time when we got sent to retrieve a stranded climbing party. I recovered without issue the leading climber; I had been lowered to him from the helo, harnessed him and pulled up. We had problem to get the belayer. I attached him to the winch cable and gave the order to pull us up. We were on the mid way to the helo when we felt a bump through the cable stopping our climb, leaving us stranded over thousand feet. The climber clinged on me squeezing my soul out. After few seconds, the winch started working again, finally pulling us into the helo. The belayer never left even when we were on the helo floor, he took him a minute before stopping hugging me😂😂😂 His first words were just a "THANK YOU". Plain and simple. People have no idea how most of our rescues and first respond ends with just nothing. I know it's our job but sometimes this lack of recognition hurt.
Lots of people become lifeguards and learn to swim properly because they have near death experiences like these. Or take up hobbies in surfing. Beat the fear.
To the two people who saved my grandbaby, while he choked in a doughnut, on fathers day in 2014 at a gas station in NY. I have NEVER forgotten you. I was so overwhelmed I did not get your names but as I celebrate my grandchild now age 11, I thank you ALL the time.
It really makes my head spin that people idolise celebrities but rarely do real heroes like this get the credit they deserve. Imagine for a second that there were no lifeguards, and then replay the scenes of children in distress through your head...let that sink in and imagine how many lives the sea would claim. It's terrifying! It boils my blood that parents are so carefree when it comes to their little ones. Children are a gift from God and as a parent you are their guardian, take your responsibility more seriously. I recall being pulled out of a swimming pool as a child after losing consciousness from hitting my head - I have not thought about that incident for a very long time but this just brought it all back. So much gratitude to that lifeguard. Thank you and God Bless all the lifeguards! ❤
Love #4 because Harrison thinks the father doesn’t understand and the kid doesn’t understand/care but the boy, to his own credit, translated honestly and accurately. Both the father and son were quite aware and I’m sure they both did better after that. Poor Harrison didn’t know that though
looking at this video made me remember how, as a kid, i had to be rescued from an older man since my grandma can't swim. i wasn't far from shore at all, but there was a pretty deep hole right where the water becomes less clear so you couldn't see it. i was a good swimmer but i got pretty scared and already gulped some water down. i woke up on the shore laying down with a man pressing on my stomach and i hope he has a good life and gets the spot in heaven he deserves
"You can't swim here" "I can" Poor kid, he's so innocent and unaware of the danger. I like his confidence but he needs to learn there are some things you just shouldn't do unless you KNOW you can do them.
Lol. I'm from a country town. The first time our classmates went to the beach the instructor was super serious about rip tides and the yellow flags and emphasised their importance repeatedly and what to do if you're caught in a rip. We didn't understand why he kept repeating himself. We were like, "we understood the first time. lol." but this is obviously why.
This means so much to me and I love seeing people willing to make sure others are safe. When I was around seven my dad left one of my friends and I ( my friend was also eight) to swim at a beach . He walked away and the waves picked up glowing over our heads and my friend wasn’t a very good swimming so she kept grabbing me. I remember screaming for help and swimming as hard as a I could and my dad was too far away to even hear us. We were so lucky to have a man on a surfboard head us and he brought us to shore. I never got to thank him but I owe that man my life. Stay safe 💜
You guys are heroes, even that is an understatement, the panic I felt when I was drowning a few years back is something indescribable hand having so many ppl saved is just amazing.
This one tugs at the heart-strings! 💙The lifeguards always look out for the most vulnerable 👉 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7d3_hc48GME.html
The little girl that was rescued by Terry will probably never forget him after finding out that passed away and he is her lifesaver back when she was trapped in the water.
I used to watch this when my grandfather was alive some 11 years ago, I’m now 20 and this brings back memories, really liked this show a lot and still do.
Jethro, I am deaf, I’ve been swimming like that before and while I wasn’t in danger you’re right that it’s hard and a bit scary cuz you can’t hear the waves, seagulls, anything. You did awesome bro.
I'm not a lifeguard but I grew up around water. Nothing as dangerous as this water, mind you, but I was a very strong swimmer. My family went on a vacation when I was 8 and the hotel had a waterpark. One of the features of the park was this massive wave pool. I was walking around the edge of the wave pool after getting a cup of ice cream and heading back to my family at a table on the other side of the pool and I saw a boy under a wave sort of thrashing. He was maybe seven or eight feet from the pool's edge. I'm 36 now and the thing I remember the most is how many people were *right next* to this boy and didn't realize he needed help. Apparently that's really common. We see drowning in movies and think it's this big, noisy to-do of screams and dramatic splashing but in reality it's often terrifyingly subtle. I jumped in and grabbed him around the shoulders, then towed him to the side and grasped the concrete curve of the edge just as a lifeguard started blowing a whistle. I guess blowing the whistle signals some kind of controller to stop the wave motion of the pool because I remember working very hard to keep the boy's head above water even after having a hold of the side and then the waves stopping and it being almost creepy calm. For all I know the whistle was blown because someone saw an eight year old drop her ice cream and jump into the deep side of the wave pool lol. I don't remember who it was, because it wasn't my parents, but someone got me a new ice cream. It's one of my prouder memories because I think I was pretty young to have the reaction I did. Also to sacrifice ice cream. A lifeguard walked me back to my folks and told them what I'd done. They were both proud but my mom was also pretty mad that I hadn't signaled for a lifeguard instead of jumping in myself. The devastatingly handsome lifeguard agreed with her. I guess we all feel like superheroes at that age because I ate my Hero's Ice Cream while staring daggers at my mom and Boyband-Pretty Lifeguard.
In this scenario it is possible that the “whistling” was intended to trigger the EAP-[Emergency Action Protocol]. I believe that this series of actions is universal among lifeguard communities.
Though I do agree signaling the lifeguard would have been best to do first, who knows how long that young boy had been struggling for his life? Your quick thinking in saving him resulted in a child going home to his family instead of a family losing a child. You were a hero to that boy and his family.
Also I have PTSD from those wave pools. I refuse to get in one again. I had someone kick me in the head, and I gulped down mouthfuls of that disgusting water to avoid drowning 🤮 Never. Again.
The first one was so devastating to me. Even though everything went well, it still brings me so much grief to know that such a fun day at the beach could be so deadly to people such a disability. Such a nice day to go swimming at the beach and just one bad day could’ve ruined everything. Life is a blessing but it can be so unforgiving too. I hope they are better accommodated in the future so they won’t have to worry about such things.
8,219. That's how many people have watched this video each day in the year since they were uploaded to RU-vid. These kinds of stories always touch so many lives and it's truly something special. In a world with so much hate, greed, spite, and discouragement, it's refreshing to be reminded that there are still good people in this world willing to put their own lives in jeopardy to save others. All I can say is bravo!! This was very inspiring to say the least. Can you just stop and imagine for one second what this world would be like if everyone selflessly treated each other the same way that these heros do? I don't know about you but THAT'S a world that I could get use to. That is a world that I would want to be a part of! I commend these brave legends. We could all learn a thing or two from these folks.
Once at a beach I went to, I was stuck far away from shore because I got tumbled and brought in by the waves far into the sea. I was practically waving and screaming for help but the lifeguard just signals me to come forward, which he should have seen I couldn’t do, but no. I had someone who wasn’t a lifeguard help me while the life guard just standed there and shouted at me to not go that far, not even asking me if I was okay. (I was about 10 at that point btw) That was a very traumatic and horrible moment for me that I will neeevvver forget.
I lived in Florida, Ft.Lauderdale as a young child over 50 years ago. Thank God for my 2 older brothers because who knows what kind of trouble I'd of found myself in the water. We went swimming often.
I was a little girl in Fort Lauderdale 50 years ago, too. I was sitting on the edge of the beach when a wavw came over me and deposited 4 Man-o-War on top of me. I came to with the lifeguard over me then a trip to the hospital. I still have a fear of beaches.
I was on holiday in America when I was 10 and I got stuck in a ripe tide, luckily I was able to swim out but for 2 minutes I was drowning, I fought for my life because no one noticed, lucky to be alive, your doing amazing work here guys well done 🎉🎉
I witnessed two kid siblings drown when I was about 10. One was resuscitated and one wasn’t. There weren’t lifeguards, but tons of soldiers, one being my dad, who pulled them out and started cpr. It was one of the worst things I’ve ever witnessed, but it drilled into me the importance of water safety and bls. I’ve been trying to stress it to my kids now, and they do pretty well but they’re still kids and I always worry about going through something like this with them. I’ll never take them to open water that doesn’t have lifeguards because something can happen so fast. It’s terrifying.
When I was on holiday in Florida me and my brother had our boggie boards and we went to a place where we could barely touch and my brother was like 5-6 at the time and out of nowhere the lifeguard jumped into the water and grabbed him me my brother aunt and mom were super confused and my mom and aunt started filming and laughing while my brother almost died! We didn’t realize that there was a rip tide and if the lifeguard didn’t come any sooner he would’ve died…
As a parent I am dumbfounded by these other parents. I'd never let my small kids swim out like that in the ocean.. Underwater currents are a thing. It happened to me when I was in Australia.. There is literally nothing you can do. Just hold your breath and pray you get to the surface and back to land again.
I have a question: as a kid we went to the beach in south california, i live in switzerland now, we were told to swim parallel to the beach if we got caught in a rip until the waves start pushing you back in. Is that true or false? Could it save me doing that?
Yes, rip tides are where the water flows back into the ocean, swimming against it is Like swimming against a river swim parallel until the waves lead you back to shore
second rescuer is a hero. he could never go back to beach to avoid sad memories,but he choose to help other kids in danger even it can't turn back his son but sad memories
With the 2 year old in the car. I would have gone to the front passenger side window to break that to get in. I would not care about the grandmothers feelings but this is life or death. You can replace your cars window. You can't replace you grandchild. As soon as i got there.
@@camzilla603boy12 It's really not hard to break a car window. I saw a grandmother do so in a parking lot. Pulled up just as she had broken the glass and then had her put the kids that were in back in my cooled off car. She was frail compared to this woman. And if for some reason the grandmother in the video couldn't (she could) there's no reason she shouldn't have been asking them to break a window for her instead of just waiting for someone else to make a decision.
I once almost drowned and the life guard was looking at me doing nothing my dad helped but my brother was with me jumping on me in the water because he was also drowning my dad only got my brother and the life guard decided too save me but then just pushed me on the ground and yelled at me .. since then I hated lie guards but this channel made me Change my mind
What a crowded beach! I’ve watched quite a few of your videos. Giving aid to those who can’t handle the water is crucial. I am grateful that you take your job seriously.
Some parents are unbelievable. It’s full time job, you don’t even get 5 minutes off. That’s the trade for having the joy of children. Me and my other half never took our eyes off our kids around water. Not even for a second. You forego sun bathing, leaning back with your eyes closed, drinking. It’s the deal. My eldest is now a lifeguard herself, and still I can’t rest….
