In the summer many of the most terrible accidents happen, perhaps because we do not fear enough heat or water, perhaps because we rely heavily on the flotation measures of children. I speak of sleeves, floats, etc., which are a help but never completely safe. Therefore we must never take their eyes.
In the case that I tell you the problem was not exactly that, but even worse. It is not that for a moment they did not watch the young, it is that they directly forgot that it was in the water. And what happened was nothing with what could have happened. The 10 month baby drifted in his float and rescued her when she was already 1 km from the coast.
The biggest scare of his short life
It happened in Turkey, near the city of Kucukkuyu, where the Ilgin family went to spend a day at the beach. They put the girl a float so she could bathe and instead of staying with her as it is logical, they relaxed in the sand.
They didn't count on what it was an area with a lot of wind and strong ocean currents and the girl began to move further and further away from the shore. Several bathers realized the situation and tried to rescue the girl without success.
That's when they decided to call to the coast guard, who took care of the situation and reached the baby when he had already moved away 1 km from the coast. They took her out of the water and returned her with her family, where a crowd watched the scene in bewilderment.
The two mistakes of the Ilgin family
Surely you already have them clear, but just in case, since the intention of this post is, in addition to explaining the story, to prevent something like this from happening again, I tell you what are the two big mistakes of the Ilgin family.
On the one hand, they trusted their daughter's safety in a flotation system whose mission is simply that, that floats. Never, ever, should we rely on sleeves, floats, boats and the like because at any time they can dump. On the other, they left the girl alone in the water. A 10 month old girl alone in the water. Alone. At sea. Alone!
I do not leave my astonishment.
Via and Photos | Daily Mail
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