The Way a Person Gets Drowned 將溺死的徵兆

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Keith O'Brien, How We Drown; You can be watching, and still not know someone
is going down. Boston Globe, Aug. 8, 2010.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/08/08/how_we_drown/

Quote:

Francesco A. Pia "found that Hollywood’s version of what happens in a
drowning was complete fiction. And far more alarming than that, he found
that water safety experts had it wrong, too. There is, in fact, almost never
any shouting or waving involved with a drowning. Quietly and quickly,
usually without a word to anyone, people struggling to stay afloat slip
beneath the surface of the water — gone, sometimes, in cases involving
children, in 20 seconds.

"In his grainy, color footage gathered at Orchard Beach, the victims time
and again flap their arms at their side, as if trying to use the surface of
the water as a platform. They go vertical in the water, straight up and down
, angling their airways toward the oxygen. And the goal, he pointed out, is
not yelling for help — that almost never happens — but something far more
primal: just breathing for as long as possible.


My comment:
(a) The article states, "'It’s the rule rather than the exception,' Pia
said, 'that a drowning person is often surrounded by people who are unaware
that a drowning is taking place. We had one case where a boy was drowning —
he was probably about 12 years old — and there was a man side-stroking
right in front of him. You can see the boy’s eyes tracking him as the man
is swimming and he just keeps going by. This is not a case of the side-
stroker not caring. He simply did not know that the boy was drowning.

The video-tape at issue:

IDR - Instinctive Drowning Response
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndbGvjqEweA

(b) The article in web page 2 mentions Lynnfield and Brockton, Massachusetts
. The former is a town 18 mile true north of Boston, while the latter, 25
miles south of Boston.
(c) Orchard Beach, New York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard_Beach,_New_York
(a public beach in the borough of the Bronx in New York City)

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