Swimming off a fairly crowded beach south of LA and I thought I heard this guy screaming help. With the roar of the waves I could only just perceive him, after a minute I was sure my brain was making it up as there were people way closer that didn't seem bothered. I watched for another minute, the guy was swimming strong inshore but not making any progress. I ran down the beach and shouted to the life guard, who did the whole bay watch thing (ran down the wet sand, stripped off shirt, dived in with red float). I watched him being dragged ashore, he couldn't stand due to exhaustion.
After 20 minutes on the beach with a dozen medics he was air-lifted away.
Similar thing happened a few months previously. Swimming with a group of friends on Venice beach, 1 guy seemed struggling so I kept close. He said he was fine but I decided not to go further out so he would have company inshore. A minute later he start screaming for help, I start pulling him ashore, a minute later a friend joins. We meet up with a beautiful lifeguard who takes over. Damn, she was like Pamela in bay watch.
Last year on the Allalinhorn (4200m mountain in swiss alps) in a whiteout we came across a German women who got separated from her husband. Our party split up and some went to search for the husband while me and a few others took the women back to safely across the glacier. She was very disorientated so we went real slow. At one point there was a larger crevasse with a small snow bridge to cross it. We told her exactly what to do and she did the exact wrong thing and skied to the edge of the snowbridge which promptly collapsed. Luckily we were close and grabbed her arms before she disappeared. Once of our party ended up with frost bite due to the slow descent.
After 20 minutes on the beach with a dozen medics he was air-lifted away.
Similar thing happened a few months previously. Swimming with a group of friends on Venice beach, 1 guy seemed struggling so I kept close. He said he was fine but I decided not to go further out so he would have company inshore. A minute later he start screaming for help, I start pulling him ashore, a minute later a friend joins. We meet up with a beautiful lifeguard who takes over. Damn, she was like Pamela in bay watch.
Last year on the Allalinhorn (4200m mountain in swiss alps) in a whiteout we came across a German women who got separated from her husband. Our party split up and some went to search for the husband while me and a few others took the women back to safely across the glacier. She was very disorientated so we went real slow. At one point there was a larger crevasse with a small snow bridge to cross it. We told her exactly what to do and she did the exact wrong thing and skied to the edge of the snowbridge which promptly collapsed. Luckily we were close and grabbed her arms before she disappeared. Once of our party ended up with frost bite due to the slow descent.
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Decent bloke.