Duluth, Minnesota — The end of last week’s horrifying moments on the St. Louis River was happy and safe.
Police said a 6-year-old boy was found underwater after leaving his family’s sailing vessel. A kayaker who happened to be near the river says he saw the child yelling at his father. Then he came to the boy’s judicial disqualification and captured the entire scene with the camera he was wearing.
David Jones was kayaking and fighting sturgeon when he heard the child yelling at his father. “It was the sound of a child screaming with complete panic and complete horror,” Jones said.
He explained that he looked to his right and saw a child in the middle of the river channel. At that time, Jones, who was recording a catch with GoPro, cut the fishing line and rowed for almost four minutes before reaching the child. In the footage, you can hear the boy repeatedly asking Jones to help him find his father.
“Children often get hypothermia much faster than adults because of their general body size. I can see how long he was in the water and his face started to turn a little blue. “I didn’t.” Jones went on to say: “That was one of the first things I started to feel that urgency. EMS to make him flow, out of the water, and dry him, and to evaluate him before he leaves the scene. To make him number one to contact. “
According to Jones, it was only 57 degrees outside and they were almost 250 yards from the coast. The boy, who took off in a strong wind, was said to be hanging on a rope behind his father’s sailing ship. Police also reported that the father said the wind was too strong to turn the boat and the tides hindered the child’s ability to swim to the shore.
“I had to make the minutes look like seconds and the seconds look like milliseconds. In that situation, I know it will take forever to the person you’re trying to help. Because it is necessary at the end to make you feel like. “
Just last year, a man drowned while trying to save two young girls on the St. Louis River. One of them was his own 8-year-old daughter.
To prevent the water from overwhelming his kayak, Jones laid his child aside as they rowed on the shore. Fortunately, the child wore a life jacket so he was able to float.
“People are drowning in some of these river systems across the country each year because they don’t have enough knowledge about properly sized undercurrents and personal levitation devices,” Jones said.
When they got to the shore, Jones approached three men who had fallen by the water. While Jones was calling 911, the man helped dry the boy.
“I was also relieved to know that I was in contact with law enforcement and they were checking out my child.” Then the boy reunited with his father.
Source: www.fox21online.com
