Post by Frank on Apr 2nd, 2024 at 7:28am
Learn to swim.
Surf Live Saving Australia Lifesaving Chair Chris Jacobson says “fatality numbers are up” over the summer period. 99 people died in Australian waters over the summer. The Surf Life Saving Drowning Report also shows there were more than 5,700 rescues across the country. “Unfortunately, this summer period, we saw 99 deaths occur across Australia,” Mr Jacobson told Sky News Australia. “[When] we look at previous years, we know that fatality numbers are up, particularly in the regional and remote areas.
A Victorian family’s Easter weekend in the Gold Coast has ended in tragedy after two men drowned trying to rescue a two-year-old girl.
Dharmvir Singh, 38, and his father Gurjinder Singh, 65, attempted to rescue Dharmvir’s daughter who fell into the pool of a Surfers Paradise resort on Sunday night.
Paramedics rushed to the Top of the Mark hotel on Orchid Avenue at about 6:45pm and found the two men in cardiac arrest following the drowning incident.
It is believed the toddler’s mother attempted to save the child, but that she could not swim, prompting the men to jump in.
Queensland Ambulance’s Gold Coast senior operations supervisor Mitchell Ware said the child was playing by the side of the pool prior to the double drowning.
“It’s believed that that child has lost their footing, causing them to fall into a deeper part of the pool, at which point the two male patients then entered the pool in an attempt to rescue that child and found themselves in trouble at the pool,” Mr Ware said.
Surf Live Saving Australia Lifesaving Chair Chris Jacobson says “fatality numbers are up” over the summer period. 99 people died in Australian waters over the summer. The Surf Life Saving Drowning Report also shows there were more than 5,700 rescues across the country. “Unfortunately, this summer period, we saw 99 deaths occur across Australia,” Mr Jacobson told Sky News Australia. “[When] we look at previous years, we know that fatality numbers are up, particularly in the regional and remote areas.
A Victorian family’s Easter weekend in the Gold Coast has ended in tragedy after two men drowned trying to rescue a two-year-old girl.
Dharmvir Singh, 38, and his father Gurjinder Singh, 65, attempted to rescue Dharmvir’s daughter who fell into the pool of a Surfers Paradise resort on Sunday night.
Paramedics rushed to the Top of the Mark hotel on Orchid Avenue at about 6:45pm and found the two men in cardiac arrest following the drowning incident.
It is believed the toddler’s mother attempted to save the child, but that she could not swim, prompting the men to jump in.
Queensland Ambulance’s Gold Coast senior operations supervisor Mitchell Ware said the child was playing by the side of the pool prior to the double drowning.
“It’s believed that that child has lost their footing, causing them to fall into a deeper part of the pool, at which point the two male patients then entered the pool in an attempt to rescue that child and found themselves in trouble at the pool,” Mr Ware said.
