Heroic beachgoer hospitalised after helping struggling swimmers

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The man was stabilised on scene and transported by ambulance to hospital for further treatment.


A heroic swimmer who assisted a group of swimmers who had gotten into difficulty in the surf of a KwaZulu-Natal beach has been hospitalised after he, too, found himself in trouble in the water.
Netcare 911 spokesperson Shawn Herbst said paramedics, emergency services and the National Sea Rescue Institute responded to reports of a drowning at an unprotected non-swimming beach in Salt Rock, North of Ballito shortly before 14:00 on Saturday.
“Reports from a source at the scene indicated that a group of swimmers got into difficulty while swimming. A 53-year-old male who witnessed the event rushed to the rescue, pulling one person out the water and bravely returned to assist the others,” Herbst said.

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Heroic beachgoer hospitalised after helping struggling swimmers

The man was stabilised on scene and transported by ambulance to hospital for further treatment.

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Teen fighting for her life, two men hospitalised after daring rescue at Salt Rock beach | North Coast Courier

The near drowning took place at an unprotected beach just north of Salt Rock main beach.

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[RonSwanson]

Give that man a Bells.

 

[MidnightWizard]

Stupid people need to pay for their stupidity
In this case the hero thwarted several well deserved "Darwin-Awards'
Shame

 

[grok]

Just look at that smile, he saved a life today, but it's probably the size of his massive balls that dragged him down..

 

[Toxxyc]

I spend time at Salt Rock often. There's one hell of a big swimming beach, with lifeguards on duty less than 300m to the right of where this happened. If you enter the water at Salt Rock you'll immediately know that it's very stupid to try and go in at the wrong places. Salt Rock's water gets very deep, very fast and there's a gulley that runs parallel to the beach that almost always contains a strong side-sweeping current. To boot, the beach almost always has riptides hiding somewhere. A riptide took me out almost to the shark nets once. It's not the best swimming beach, which is why people go to Ballito.

Respect the sea, peoples. That thing's dangerous if you're not careful.

 

[R13...]

I've seen people ignore lifeguard instructions in Ballito and just swim where ever they want. It's not even as if the beaches are ever crowded.