All the people going to swim on hot days, have to know and abide by rules to ensure their safety on the water.Assistance in distress on the water in most cases is provided by specially trained and well-trained rescuers, but only in those cases, if you swim in the designated areas.But many prefer a lake and ponds, are not equipped beaches and equipped rescue equipment.Naturally, professionals and rescuers in such reservoirs do not exist.In such situations, assistance in distress in the water is highly dependent on the skills and determination of ordinary people caught nearby.
Rescue
addition to the ability to swim, a man trying to save a drowning, should be able to use a variety of devices, capable of assisting in the rescue operation and to accelerate it.When a shipwreck assistance in distress in the water largely depends on themselves: they must wear life jackets or bibs, organized to boot into the boats or rafts, and when released into the water to make every effort to get to the survival craft, or at leastcircles.If the disaster, so to speak, the individual, the available means should be used by those whose power to assist persons in distress on the water: to get to the sinking boat or boat, throwing him end or buoys (if any) from the pier or motorboat.
Salvation drowning man who can swim well and are in close proximity to remember that the panic causes the victim to grasp for any support, so that it interferes with their salvation and can sink came to the rescue.Assisting in distress in the water to swim to be literate.You must use the following methods:
- Podplytie back, out of the capture sinking.He picked up for armpit, fixed right arm and shoulder, and as such is towed to the boat or the shore, his head must be at the same time to keep above water.
- outstretched hands gripped his head: all the fingers on his cheeks, except for little fingers, which are located under the chin.It is transported on the back of the sinking.
- Capture under both armpits.
- Capture arm.The victim is towed on its side.
- Capture the collar (if sinking into the body) or the hair.
If the victim still clung to the rescuer, he should get rid of his grip, even by force.When capturing brushes are turning sharply toward the thumbs drowning, which then pushed down.When you grip the neck in front made a push in the chin with clamping nostrils.At the back of the neck clamping rescuer turns sharply upward elbow, and he dives under it.Freed, the rescuer deploys the victim back to her and pulled to shore.
Salvation sank to the bottom
If a person due to loss of consciousness or obessilivaniya sank to the bottom and lie face up, swim to it by the head, picked up by the armpits and float to the surface.If a face-down approach is performed by the legs, capture - again, armpits, and the ascent sinking turned face up.Basic assistance in distress in the water, lost consciousness and sank to the bottom, begins on land: a man trapped inside eliminate the water, CPR, and if necessary - chest compressions.
actions when receiving a distress call
First of all it should be noted that the provision of assistance to vessels and persons in distress on the water is a must.Captain, ignoring the world-renowned signal SOS, is punishable under Article 270 of the Russian Federation (as amended in 2003 - № 162-F3), regardless of what motives underlie the refusal.The first measures taken by the captain and his ship when receiving a distress call, the following:
- Report rescuers about the accident, indicating origin.
- make an attempt to contact the sinking ship, moving in his direction.
- At the same time prepare for rescue operations: check-chipmunks lifelines to tow survival craft, cargo cranes - to keep the sinking ship (if possible), and lift boats, nets and ladders - for ease of lifting people out of the water.Parallel tested medicine and bandages, and the crew is instructed for primary health care.
This coming to the rescue of the vessel must keep in touch and to coordinate the actions taken by the rescuers and other ships traveling to the crash site.
