Summertime water safety, and this is, precisely W-H-Y, you should NOT go for a swim anywhere away from where there’s a lifeguard on duty, hello, hello, hello??? How many drownings do we need, for the people, to finally learn THAT here, huh??? And no, this is still NOT the last, of that, “dying breed” either, I’m afraid…off of the Newspapers, translated…
The forty-three-year-old man, Lee took his young children to the beach of Chihjing to swim, a huge wave came, took away his six-year-old son, he’d leapt into the waters to save the child, the father-and-son pair were both, carried away by the waves, gone missing, leaving behind the eight-year-old young daughter on the shores.
It was when the tides were rising yesterday evening, when the searches were sent out, but the conditions made the search even more difficult, the local fire department, the coastguard, started, spanning outward, the helicopters also were sent out as well, the searches were conducted simultaneously via air, sea and land.
the father, trying to safe his own son…photo from UDN.com
As Lee’s wife was called, she’d rushed over to the beach, started crying. Based off of understanding, Lee lives in Fengshan of Kaohsiung, worked in the realtor business, yesterday afternoon, he took his children out alone to the shell museum nearby Chihjing to swim, but the accident happened. The surfers who bore witness immediately rushed in to try and save them, but the wind was too strong, the surfers were cut by the wave blockers, and couldn’t. save them.
The witnesses told, that the six-year-old boy and the eight-year-old both were hit by the waves, but the girl was lucky, not gotten carried away, as the young boy was carried away by the waves, as Lee tried to save his son, he’d, fallen into the oceans too.
The local fire department received the calls of the father and son’s accidents at around six in the evenings, sent thirty trucks, close to sixty rescuers over, there were the multiple beach carts that arrived too, reading the tides, the currents, continued to search, the wind was more than level four, there’s, the high risk of trying to find them, and so, the helicopters circled around above too.
The rescuers stated, that as the microlifts of the bans had been in effect, the beaches became, more populated, and, that the accidents occurred not on the beaches, but the local shell museum that was banned from swimming to the public. Last year around July, there was also a drowning accident of a seventy-seven-year-old elderly woman, Chang who went for her early morning swim with friends, she was found drowned by her friends, and, the rescuers couldn’t, save her either.
And so, despite how dangerous this area was, I mean, there’d been, drownings from before, and yet, these members of the public still, chose to, swim in this, prohibited region, and surely enough, drowning deaths, is what we will, get!