Having A Choice In Preventing A Drowning
We had a drowning in Vero Beach just a couple of weeks ago. A two year old boy scurried away from the sight of his adult supervision for just a few seconds and…This tragic incident happened in a very well to do neighborhood near the beach. Accidents can and do happen to ANYONE and EVERYONE. This is one ‘accident’ that we have a choice in preventing. We got a few extra calls for safety product estimates after citizens read the news in the paper, but it was too late to help prevent that tragedy in this family’s life.
I personally know a few families who have lost children to drownings and it NEVER ends well. It’s a devastating occurance for everyone involved right down to the paramedics who attempt to revive the child. One of my good friends was a medic on this site. He is a true professional and yet he was absolutely moved by this scene. Here he is, a 250 lb. giant of a man, a father of four and a top notch paramedic, and he helpless in his attempts to help this little boy or his family. He said the grandmother was simply wilted and crushed by the entire ordeal.
Maybe I’m preaching to the choir, but in a nutshell, the more layers of protection, the better. A safety fence or net would have almost certainly given the adult in charge the necessary seconds or minute to find this young boy before he ever even got to the water. It would have changed these people’s lives forever. What’s that worth?
It makes my skin crawl for some to suggest that these tragic incidents are a “way to market safety products”. I don’t ever want to take someone’s emotions and play games with them. It also makes me very sad, angry and a host of other feelings, when a simple and relatively inexpensive device like a pool fence is seen by some as an eyesore, inconvenience or waste of money at the expense of a little boy’s or girl’s life. I just can’t justify being silent about this issue. It’s a mission and I’m hoping many more people will be added to the cause before I have to read or hear about another child drowning.
Sincerely,
Joel Molinari
Pool Guard of the Treasure Coast
I personally know a few families who have lost children to drownings and it NEVER ends well. It’s a devastating occurance for everyone involved right down to the paramedics who attempt to revive the child. One of my good friends was a medic on this site. He is a true professional and yet he was absolutely moved by this scene. Here he is, a 250 lb. giant of a man, a father of four and a top notch paramedic, and he helpless in his attempts to help this little boy or his family. He said the grandmother was simply wilted and crushed by the entire ordeal.
Maybe I’m preaching to the choir, but in a nutshell, the more layers of protection, the better. A safety fence or net would have almost certainly given the adult in charge the necessary seconds or minute to find this young boy before he ever even got to the water. It would have changed these people’s lives forever. What’s that worth?
It makes my skin crawl for some to suggest that these tragic incidents are a “way to market safety products”. I don’t ever want to take someone’s emotions and play games with them. It also makes me very sad, angry and a host of other feelings, when a simple and relatively inexpensive device like a pool fence is seen by some as an eyesore, inconvenience or waste of money at the expense of a little boy’s or girl’s life. I just can’t justify being silent about this issue. It’s a mission and I’m hoping many more people will be added to the cause before I have to read or hear about another child drowning.
Sincerely,
Joel Molinari
Pool Guard of the Treasure Coast
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