Tips to Prevent Drowning

Though many imagine people in distress while swimming making noise and splashing around, drowning usually happens fast and silently. Signs of a person actively drowning include:

• Silence (children who are hyperventilating won’t be screaming for help)
• A head that is tilted back towards the sky as it searches for air
• Arms that are moving downward as the drowning person attempts to push their bodies upwards on something solid that is not there.
• Distressed swimmers may be clinging to the side of a pool, raft, or treading or bobbing in the water.