"Oh my god, this kid even dragged an adult along!"
"A few more!"
The beach was suddenly in commotion, and many people began to run away from the beach. Su Qinghu only had time to point the direction for the children to run over, and then he ran towards the beach, while not looking back and reminding them that no matter where they went, the three of them must hold hands and never let go.
The weather was fine today and there was no wind, so the waves were gentle. No one expected that someone would suddenly be dragged into the sea.
Su Qinghu was worried about her mother-in-law, her heart was pounding. Besides rushing to the beach, her mind was full of all kinds of self-rescue common sense for dealing with emergencies at the beach.
I’m afraid we’ll encounter a rip current today!
She rushed forward against the crowd, and the further she went, the more frightened she became.
It really is a rip current!
Originally, people were almost evenly distributed on the beach, but there was an area nearly six meters wide where there was no one. People near this area were swimming desperately and laboriously away from this area under the command of the person in charge of watching the sea.
But looking at the trajectory of their swimming, there is clearly a suction force dragging them into the range of the offshore current!
Su Qinghu's heart sank.
Rip currents can reach speeds of up to 2 meters per second, and can be anywhere from a hundred meters to a thousand meters long. Each rip current can last at least several minutes, and sometimes even longer.
Now she just prayed that her mother-in-law wasn't one of the people dragged in by the rip current.
If she is really caught by a rip current, I hope my mother-in-law can calm down quickly, not struggle too much, not go against the current, conserve her energy to the maximum extent, and it is best to go with the flow and let herself relax and float on the water.
The narrow and turbid strip of water can already be seen in Su Qing Lake.
As she continued to rush forward, she grabbed the lifebuoy from a woman's hand, avoided the strip of water current, and climbed directly onto the boat under the astonished gaze of the beach rescuers.
"I'm a good swimmer and I know first aid!" Su Qinghu quickly got on the boat and stood on tiptoe to look in the direction of the offshore current.
There were many people floating in that six-meter-wide strip of water. She could see many people desperately trying to swim towards the beach...
The emergency personnel started shouting with a loud speaker, asking them to swim to the sides, and those who couldn't swim to relax and let themselves float.
Su Qinghu had a gloomy face. He held the lifebuoy and stared at the people floating in the water. He wanted to tell whether his mother-in-law was in it by the color of her swimsuit.
The strip of water flow is now nearly sixty meters away from the shore, but it doesn't seem to be slowing down.
The rescuers had already caught up with the people closest to the shore and began shouting at them from a distance and began to work on the rescue.
How advanced could rescue facilities be in the 1980s? They still mostly relied on manpower.
Su Qinghu couldn't explain how he felt as he watched some people grabbing the ropes thrown by the rescue team and being pulled sideways away from the rip current.
No mother-in-law.
Time passed minute by minute, and after rescuing the nearest group of people, the rescue began to move in the direction of the offshore current.
In the second minute, Su Qinghu also followed the rescue boat and saw the familiar swimsuit.
That was the swimsuit she bought for her mother-in-law!
Su Qinghu held the swimming ring tightly and squinted at her mother-in-law, hoping to see more clearly.
It seemed as if there was a child hanging on my mother-in-law's body, because his hands and feet were locked tightly on my mother-in-law, so her movements were restricted and she couldn't even float up to breathe. While struggling, she gradually lost her strength and began to sink.
Su Qinghu's anger was uncontrollable!
The first sentence that came to my mind was: "Oh my God, this kid is dragging an adult!"
"Hey, comrade! This is not a joke!" The rescuers saw Su Qinghu walking towards the boat and hurriedly stopped her. "Even if your family is in here, no matter how anxious you are, don't jump in. Don't add to the burden of our rescue work!"
If they hadn't heard her say that she knew first aid and could swim, and that the rescue couldn't be delayed any longer, they would never have let her get on the boat!
Su Qinghu took a deep breath, checked his watch, and pointed to the rescuers in the direction of his mother-in-law, Ms. Meng. "There's an elderly person and a child over there. The elderly person is no longer able to save themselves. If we don't rescue them now, it will be too late!"
"Use the loudspeaker to tell someone who's strong to throw the lifebuoy I'm holding over there and draw some of the people away from the old man and the child."
"Then give me a floating board and I'll go into the water." Su Qinghu said as he threw the lifebuoy over and started doing warm-up exercises.
She likes water sports and has been trained in holding her breath for a long time. She is not afraid of water and probably knows much more about underwater rescue than people of this generation.
Of course, ordinary people should never do this.
The rescuers just did as Su Qinghu said, and then they heard Su Qinghu say, "The flow rate has slowed down."
After saying that, he held the board, used something on the boat to jump with assistance, and then went into the water. His movements were clean and neat, and it was obvious that he was a real swimming expert.
Feeling the difference in the speed of the water flow, Su Qinghu knew that she was already in the middle of it. She nimbly avoided a strong man who wanted to snatch her board. Su Qinghu looked up to confirm the direction and continued to swim towards her mother-in-law.
When she entered the water, the boat was facing the direction of her mother-in-law.
With a highly calm mind and perfect body coordination, Su Qinghu finally reached the boy with a wisp of long hair behind his head when his arms felt a little sore.
Su Qinghu's eyes flashed coldly, and she quickly dived into the water. She saw the boy using his grandmother's body as a support point, stepping on her and trying to jump to the surface...
Alpaca!
Su Qinghu cursed out loud, found a good angle, avoided the child in front of him, swam over quickly, grabbed the mother-in-law who had been abandoned by the child and was no longer restrained, and tried her best to drag her to the surface of the water quickly.
After struggling to get his mother-in-law onto the float, Su Qinghu stepped on the water and raised his head. He determined the direction of the rescue boat and pushed the float towards it.
After swimming for a few times, I suddenly felt something grabbing my foot.
It was the child who dragged the mother-in-law into the water!
At this moment, Su Qinghu even had a very dark idea. He wanted to kick the child away. Finally, he took a deep breath, held his breath, and used the strength of his legs and feet to bring the child up by the buoyancy of the water.
Carrying two people, Su Qinghu swam hard towards the rescue boat. His arms were sore and his heart was beating too fast.
The rescuers were already waiting nearby, and when they saw Su Qinghu approaching, they threw a noose. Su Qinghu tied up the mother-in-law first, letting them pull the other person up, and then used another noose to tie up the boy.
Both of them were pulled up. Su Qinghu breathed a sigh of relief, his arms trembling. He lay on his back on the sea to catch his breath before pulling the rope again and being pulled up.
"I'm afraid it's not good!"
As soon as she came up, Su Qinghu heard the rescuers say something that made her legs go weak.
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