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justleft
10-02-2007, 03:15 PM
Right before my eyes.
I was standing on a sidewalk next to a big marina filling out a water quality log.
There was a (guessing) 4 yr old girl, 7 yr old boy, and father walking up
the dock. Both kids are in bathing suits with arms full of towels/jackets and
wearing backpacks.

The kids are 5 ft or so in front of dad. The little girl looks back at dad and asks
where is mom. The dad turns around and yells back down the dock. Well,
the little girl is still walking forward while looking back. She trips and goes down,
like a stone (backpack I guess), right between the nose of a boat and the dock.

I am on the outside of locked security gate.

The boy just froze and went pie eyed. The father spins around, take a couple
steps, belly flops on the dock, shoves his arm in the water and grabs the girl
by her backpack strap. He hoists her out, she is coughing with water running out
of her nose and mouth. But just a few minutes later the whole family is walking off the dock.

Wow, that was a close one. Good thing the lake is so far down so she only went
down in 3 ft of water. Good thing her father was quick to react.

Hope they make the little ones where PFDs while on the dock.

FOSTER
10-02-2007, 03:28 PM
Hard thing to see when you are helpless to do anything to help, Glad everyone was ok.