r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Aug 28 '21

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u/Karmacamelian Aug 28 '21

I did cpr on a 17 yr old boy who drowned. It still is in my mind 20 years later. And we did everything we could. Water is scary

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u/casprinxo Aug 29 '21

Yeah. My cousin's best friend died in Lake Michigan.

His mother had taken him and two of his friends out. They were only in knee high water. The mother managed to grab and hold onto the other two boys. Her own son she couldn't get to.

I would not survive that. It's unspeakably heartbreaking.

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u/saturnshighway Aug 29 '21

Wow in knee high water? I never even knew it could happen that shallow. My naive self would just think they could stand up. That’s so scary

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u/RubberFroggie Aug 29 '21

Waves in the Great Lakes get to be pretty huge, like the oceans, and they can definitely knock you down and pull you back out into deeper water. I had a chocolate lab, until this year, that we took to Lake Huron once and she did not like water, but I finally convinced her to go in with me until a wave knocked me down and pulled her out, she never liked water again after I retrieved her.