November 4, 2025 • 10 mins
Inspired by this week’s chat about swimming and the importance of knowing CPR, Lisa and Russell opened the phones to hear your near-drowning and CPR stories and there were some doozies! Tune in to hear more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's about this time of year that our.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Our thoughts turned to summer and swimming, and this week
we want you to turn your thoughts also to swimming safety.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
We do because of recent statistics that show we have
the worst case of drownings in the country and it's
getting worse, and it's getting worse, and it's striking older people.
All week we're speaking to various experts in the areas
of swimming and CPR, which is very important. Today we're
(00:31):
going to speak to Greg Rees, who's the CEO of
State Swim but we're opening up the phones now on
thirteen ten sixty five in the text of course zero
four seven six ninety six ninety six ninety six, and
we want to know if you it's a bit of
a serious dub.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
It is one that has to be addressed.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Have you had a near drowning or CPR experience that
we do have three hundred dollars suspend it Wizard Pharmacy
to give away the number three thirteen ten sixty five
or zero four seven six ninety six ninety six ninety six.
In my family, we are all very strong swimmers. Yet
even the strongest of swimmers can find themselves in situations. Now,
(01:10):
when you're at the beach and they say swim between
the flags, swim between the flags. They've done the work
for you and they because rips are not to be
messed with, no matter how strong a swimmer you are.
We had an experience recently was earlier this year. My
(01:30):
my niece's husband went. A very strong swimmer. He's gone
out to help someone who got into difficulty. And you
hear this, how often do you hear this story? So
he's gone out to help her and he himself has
got caught in this rip. Now, this rip was pulling
him down. I didn't know that they did this. I
(01:52):
thought they just I just thought they pulled you out.
This thing was pulling him down as well as out,
and he was really really fun to stay above the
water and he was. Fortunately, it all had a happy ending.
Everyone was saved by my niece, who was practically a superhero.
And I'm not even kidding she is. She's a nurse,
(02:13):
she's a superhero. She's got out I think on a
paddle board. She's rescued everybody. But by the time she
got to jas, he was exhausted and he was going under.
And he is a strong young man, but he was
absolutely wasted by this rip that he was fighting to
(02:33):
stay above. So that's how serious it is.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, I earlier this year.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I'm not as strong or as young as I used
to be, but I got caught in a small down
at City Beach, in the small rip. It wasn't a
massive one, thankfully, but still enough to know, hang on,
I'm getting dragged out and you just lose control of
and you try to stay calm. Yeah, a sense of
panic that kicks off and exhaust you. Yes, And that's
(03:02):
human nature it is.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I did not could pull you down as well.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
No, well, thankfully the one I was in it wasn't
overly strong, but it was definitely still a rip and
it wasn't pulling me. I mean, if it had been
doing that as well. The exhaustion just gets.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
The exhaustion, the panic, the adrenaline that comes from the
combination of the two.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
To anyone, they say, go with it, blah blah.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
But it's not that simple. You're you're going out, and
if you're going out to see it is obviously it
is a natural, you know, reaction to to fight against it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We we have a we have we have a nice
early call. Hello Lorraine, Good morning Lorraine.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Hello rain In Hilbert. What's what's your story?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah, a couple of years ago I took my daughter
and my twins who were seven at the time, to
Queens Ran, Yes, and we went for an early morning
swim and we were between the flag. Yeah, but have
been like a morning rip or something like that. I
don't know the logistics of this beach that much, but yeah,
we all got caught in what this which was dragging
(04:09):
us out. And my twins were seven and we we
my daughter who's an adult, we made a chain. Yes,
it just took me all my strength. It was like, okay,
this is you know, terror, mother strength coming and I
dragged them back into the It's really scared the little one.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That's that lifting a car mother strength.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Sorry, you hear about it a roon ex amazing, Well
well done.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
You wasted from it?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, yeah, I bet it's just that pure panic is.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Not the roin it was.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
It was.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
It was there with my babies and I had to
get the back in every better strength I had, but
I did it.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I'm glad that ended well. And you know, I mean,
like we talk about the flags and everything. I guess.
No one's infallible that you can't. It's not always got
to be perfectly right, but it's certainly I guess a
guide like.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
The Ripstone experience.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
So yeah, you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Yeah, thanks.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Had a happy ending year, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Mel On. The text says, when I was young, I
was in a pool at a hotel and a younger
girl was struggling in the water, so I tried to
help her. She was panicking though, and she kept pushing
me under. So luckily my dad jumped in and saved
us both.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's one of the fears too, isn't it is that
when you're helping someone, they panic and they drag you down.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yes. Absolutely. Leo and Morley, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Leo, good morning. How are we going?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Good?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
So what's your what's your story?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Well, I've actually got two little stories. One is both
involving school. Actually I was at high school back out
of high many years ago, We're probably about sixteen seventeen.
We had a swinging lessons or sports at the time
at school and had their own pool, and right at
(06:02):
the end of all the lessons, the teacher thought it
would be a good thing to see who could hold
their breath the longest and swim the furthest underwater. So
one of our chaps he hyperventilated and he could sucking
and throwing the air into his lungs. Took off. He
did two laps of the pool and turned for the
(06:23):
third and the deep end and just literally stopped underwater
and slowly just sank to the bottom. So yeah, So
teacher was right at the other end of the pool.
We're all looking at this, and he saw as goanos
and a few explicive words and get him out, get
(06:44):
him out. So three of the boys jumped in, pulled
him out, and blue lips and everything had to be resuscitated,
but he was fine. I've got chick. Yeah. And then
the second time, my wife, when she came to Australia,
she was seven years old, couldn't speak a word of English.
(07:04):
At school swimming lessons, sports teachers trying to explain to
her to jump in the water, but she didn't quite
know what she was talking about. So the teacher decided,
well sink or swim through it. So next thing you know,
she sank. She swam like a stone, as she said,
(07:27):
she reckoned. It was quite surreal sitting at the bottom
of the pool, everybody. She could see everybody moving above
her and near the noises. And then again the kids
had told her what was going on. They jumped in,
pulled her out, and she had to be resusitated.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
There's a couple of things that teachers don't do anything.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
When they give you the option sink or swim. Literally,
it's not really an option.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Thank you, thank you leo. Oh boy, that's.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
They've read the longest since from the further that's off
the curriculum.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yes, yeah, I mon't be doing that again.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Adam in Belmont says, about four months ago, my wife
was in the pharmacy picking up scripts when an elderly
gentleman collapsed right in front of it. She only has
basic first Aid but has some CPR, so she went
to work on this guy and he survived. Hooray. He
walked into the pharmacy a week later and he thanked
everyone for saving his life. The key takeaway for anyone
(08:31):
listening is in a situation where CPR may be needed,
the chances of survival for people increases if people have
training and can identify the situation where you need to
employ those skills.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And so it doesn't always have to be at the
beach or at the pool, as we found out that
at the chemists you can be even at the chemist
where you need CPR.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Mark and tapping hello, what is your story Mark?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Good morning? Yes, Sam, Well, I've been a marine risky
volunteer for about thirty plus years right and unfortunately during
that time but involved in a number of drownings at sea. Yeah,
mainly because people don't wear life jackets when we're out
in the boats. So it's a basic rule.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I mean the coroner came out a few years ago
when worked out in a two year period at a
twelve dets at sea eight because they've been saved by
wearing a life jacket.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Do you think that people get on a boat and
they go, oh, no, I can swim. That's for people
who can't swim, I you know, make that mistake.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Yes, yeah, you know when when your boat goes down
or capsizes, sometimes I don't even know how to put
a life jacket on.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, and once again, the exhaustion seems so quick is
what gets you.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Yeah. Yeah, And we always recommend people go on with
marine rescue groups. So if you do later or get
into trouble, we can come and help you.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah. Thanks, thanks for your service, mam, thank you, mall right,
thank you everybody.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You would have seen some stuff over the years, yes,
some stuff that stupid stuff too, to be avoided
It's about this time of year that our.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Our thoughts turned to summer and swimming, and this week
we want you to turn your thoughts also to swimming safety.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
We do because of recent statistics that show we have
the worst case of drownings in the country and it's
getting worse, and it's getting worse, and it's striking older people.
All week we're speaking to various experts in the areas
of swimming and CPR, which is very important. Today we're
(00:31):
going to speak to Greg Rees, who's the CEO of
State Swim but we're opening up the phones now on
thirteen ten sixty five in the text of course zero
four seven six ninety six ninety six ninety six, and
we want to know if you it's a bit of
a serious dub.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
It is one that has to be addressed.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Have you had a near drowning or CPR experience that
we do have three hundred dollars suspend it Wizard Pharmacy
to give away the number three thirteen ten sixty five
or zero four seven six ninety six ninety six ninety six.
In my family, we are all very strong swimmers. Yet
even the strongest of swimmers can find themselves in situations. Now,
(01:10):
when you're at the beach and they say swim between
the flags, swim between the flags. They've done the work
for you and they because rips are not to be
messed with, no matter how strong a swimmer you are.
We had an experience recently was earlier this year. My
(01:30):
my niece's husband went. A very strong swimmer. He's gone
out to help someone who got into difficulty. And you
hear this, how often do you hear this story? So
he's gone out to help her and he himself has
got caught in this rip. Now, this rip was pulling
him down. I didn't know that they did this. I
(01:52):
thought they just I just thought they pulled you out.
This thing was pulling him down as well as out,
and he was really really fun to stay above the
water and he was. Fortunately, it all had a happy ending.
Everyone was saved by my niece, who was practically a superhero.
And I'm not even kidding she is. She's a nurse,
(02:13):
she's a superhero. She's got out I think on a
paddle board. She's rescued everybody. But by the time she
got to jas, he was exhausted and he was going under.
And he is a strong young man, but he was
absolutely wasted by this rip that he was fighting to
(02:33):
stay above. So that's how serious it is.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, I earlier this year.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I'm not as strong or as young as I used
to be, but I got caught in a small down
at City Beach, in the small rip. It wasn't a
massive one, thankfully, but still enough to know, hang on,
I'm getting dragged out and you just lose control of
and you try to stay calm. Yeah, a sense of
panic that kicks off and exhaust you. Yes, And that's
(03:02):
human nature it is.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I did not could pull you down as well.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
No, well, thankfully the one I was in it wasn't
overly strong, but it was definitely still a rip and
it wasn't pulling me. I mean, if it had been
doing that as well. The exhaustion just gets.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
The exhaustion, the panic, the adrenaline that comes from the
combination of the two.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
To anyone, they say, go with it, blah blah.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
But it's not that simple. You're you're going out, and
if you're going out to see it is obviously it
is a natural, you know, reaction to to fight against it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We we have a we have we have a nice
early call. Hello Lorraine, Good morning Lorraine.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Hello rain In Hilbert. What's what's your story?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah, a couple of years ago I took my daughter
and my twins who were seven at the time, to
Queens Ran, Yes, and we went for an early morning
swim and we were between the flag. Yeah, but have
been like a morning rip or something like that. I
don't know the logistics of this beach that much, but yeah,
we all got caught in what this which was dragging
(04:09):
us out. And my twins were seven and we we
my daughter who's an adult, we made a chain. Yes,
it just took me all my strength. It was like, okay,
this is you know, terror, mother strength coming and I
dragged them back into the It's really scared the little one.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That's that lifting a car mother strength.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Sorry, you hear about it a roon ex amazing, Well
well done.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
You wasted from it?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, yeah, I bet it's just that pure panic is.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Not the roin it was.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
It was.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
It was there with my babies and I had to
get the back in every better strength I had, but
I did it.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I'm glad that ended well. And you know, I mean,
like we talk about the flags and everything. I guess.
No one's infallible that you can't. It's not always got
to be perfectly right, but it's certainly I guess a
guide like.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
The Ripstone experience.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
So yeah, you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Yeah, thanks.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Had a happy ending year, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Mel On. The text says, when I was young, I
was in a pool at a hotel and a younger
girl was struggling in the water, so I tried to
help her. She was panicking though, and she kept pushing
me under. So luckily my dad jumped in and saved
us both.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's one of the fears too, isn't it is that
when you're helping someone, they panic and they drag you down.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yes. Absolutely. Leo and Morley, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Leo, good morning. How are we going?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Good?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
So what's your what's your story?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Well, I've actually got two little stories. One is both
involving school. Actually I was at high school back out
of high many years ago, We're probably about sixteen seventeen.
We had a swinging lessons or sports at the time
at school and had their own pool, and right at
(06:02):
the end of all the lessons, the teacher thought it
would be a good thing to see who could hold
their breath the longest and swim the furthest underwater. So
one of our chaps he hyperventilated and he could sucking
and throwing the air into his lungs. Took off. He
did two laps of the pool and turned for the
(06:23):
third and the deep end and just literally stopped underwater
and slowly just sank to the bottom. So yeah, So
teacher was right at the other end of the pool.
We're all looking at this, and he saw as goanos
and a few explicive words and get him out, get
(06:44):
him out. So three of the boys jumped in, pulled
him out, and blue lips and everything had to be resuscitated,
but he was fine. I've got chick. Yeah. And then
the second time, my wife, when she came to Australia,
she was seven years old, couldn't speak a word of English.
(07:04):
At school swimming lessons, sports teachers trying to explain to
her to jump in the water, but she didn't quite
know what she was talking about. So the teacher decided,
well sink or swim through it. So next thing you know,
she sank. She swam like a stone, as she said,
(07:27):
she reckoned. It was quite surreal sitting at the bottom
of the pool, everybody. She could see everybody moving above
her and near the noises. And then again the kids
had told her what was going on. They jumped in,
pulled her out, and she had to be resusitated.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
There's a couple of things that teachers don't do anything.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
When they give you the option sink or swim. Literally,
it's not really an option.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Thank you, thank you leo. Oh boy, that's.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
They've read the longest since from the further that's off
the curriculum.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yes, yeah, I mon't be doing that again.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Adam in Belmont says, about four months ago, my wife
was in the pharmacy picking up scripts when an elderly
gentleman collapsed right in front of it. She only has
basic first Aid but has some CPR, so she went
to work on this guy and he survived. Hooray. He
walked into the pharmacy a week later and he thanked
everyone for saving his life. The key takeaway for anyone
(08:31):
listening is in a situation where CPR may be needed,
the chances of survival for people increases if people have
training and can identify the situation where you need to
employ those skills.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And so it doesn't always have to be at the
beach or at the pool, as we found out that
at the chemists you can be even at the chemist
where you need CPR.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Mark and tapping hello, what is your story Mark?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Good morning? Yes, Sam, Well, I've been a marine risky
volunteer for about thirty plus years right and unfortunately during
that time but involved in a number of drownings at sea. Yeah,
mainly because people don't wear life jackets when we're out
in the boats. So it's a basic rule.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I mean the coroner came out a few years ago
when worked out in a two year period at a
twelve dets at sea eight because they've been saved by
wearing a life jacket.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Do you think that people get on a boat and
they go, oh, no, I can swim. That's for people
who can't swim, I you know, make that mistake.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Yes, yeah, you know when when your boat goes down
or capsizes, sometimes I don't even know how to put
a life jacket on.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, and once again, the exhaustion seems so quick is
what gets you.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Yeah. Yeah, And we always recommend people go on with
marine rescue groups. So if you do later or get
into trouble, we can come and help you.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah. Thanks, thanks for your service, mam, thank you, mall right,
thank you everybody.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You would have seen some stuff over the years, yes,
some stuff that stupid stuff too, to be avoided
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