Proof the Magic still lives...

[Rozzie]

I am usually pretty crusty and jaded, but this story brought tears to my eyes. I really do believe that Disney Magic is still alive. :goodvibes:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/10/rescue.at.sea/index.html

[PoohsPal]

Wow...

[MatterhornMiss]

I have to admit, I teared up myself. :boohoohoo:

[FR8TRN]

Very touching story and I remember seeign it on the news here, but I can't fathom allowing your son to float off like that, he should have been at his side the entire time, if he died it would be right there next to me.

[MatterhornMiss]

If I remember the story correctly, the 12 year old autistic boy was caught in a rip current and carried away from the shore. His father sway out to try and save him, but because of the current couldn't reach him. I don't think he would have let his son swim off if he could've prevented it.

[nono]

Very touching story and I remember seeign it on the news here, but I can't fathom allowing your son to float off like that, he should have been at his side the entire time, if he died it would be right there next to me.

Rosebud.

Precisely what I was thinking, Mike. But, I'm looking at this through the eyes of being a good swimmer and trained lifeguard. There are so many folks who go out in the water without decent skills, and I am guessing this Dad was one of them.

[FR8TRN]

If I remember the story correctly, the 12 year old autistic boy was caught in a rip current and carried away from the shore. His father sway out to try and save him, but because of the current couldn't reach him. I don't think he would have let his son swim off if he could've prevented it.
Oh I understood the same, but they were in the water a long time.....saving him wasn't an option, but being with him should have been.....just a father speaking.....I'd of gotten to him....or died trying.....

[FR8TRN]

Rosebud.

Precisely what I was thinking, Mike. But, I'm looking at this through the eyes of being a good swimmer and trained lifeguard. There are so many folks who go out in the water without decent skills, and I am guessing this Dad was one of them.
Yeah a good swimmer would stand a better chance.....my youngest would likely be saving me....he's a Lifeguard also..... ;)

[Rozzie]

I consider myself a good swimmer, even used to be on a swim team about a 100 years ago. But it only takes a instant for a powerful current to take you away. I once almost fell victim to it as a child, and it was one of the scariest moments in my life. We even had a championship swim team coach here drown in the rip currents of the local island here. The boy was autistic, and his favorite thing in life was the water. What is truly amazing to me is the whole autism thing, to how it programs the brain in such a different way--that the boy could be out there that long without fear.

Anyway, I thought it was a really heartwarming story. :)

[nono]

I consider myself a good swimmer, even used to be on a swim team about a 100 years ago. But it only takes a instant for a powerful current to take you away. I once almost fell victim to it as a child, and it was one of the scariest moments in my life. We even had a championship swim team coach here drown in the rip currents of the local island here. The boy was autistic, and his favorite thing in life was the water. What is truly amazing to me is the whole autism thing, to how it programs the brain in such a different way--that the boy could be out there that long without fear.

Anyway, I thought it was a really heartwarming story. :)

I'm very disappointed in your response above. I think, if you were a Yankee, it would have read:

Mike and Nono, you are just too damn jaded.

And wrong. It was a really heartwarming story.

For this, Rozzie, you are banned from Jersey Week for 1 year.

[Colorado Belle]

First, Rozzie...crusty and jaded??????:rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

Second, it's a miracle that either of them were found alive...but both and separately...WOW!

yes, I too thought how could he have left his son slip away? especially after talking to him for hours which means they must have been pretty close together at one time. But currents are so hard to predict and since dad couldn't really communicate in the normal way: 'son, I want you to float on your back and kick towards my voice'...that the dad couldn't 'catch up' . (but yep, I would have died trying.)

I was caught in a rip once and even though I swam parallel to shore (as we were taught to do), it felt like I swam FOREVER before I could get back in to shore. And I was exhausted. As I passed the lifeguard tower, a voice boomed: I was watching you but it looked like you had things under control. DUH...I was just too embarrassed to SCREAM bloody murder.

Oh dear...off topic memory...please don't ban me! :rolleye11:

[Stitch]

For this, Rozzie, you are banned from Jersey Week for 1 year.

So are you telling us the name is changing to Jaded Week? I'm so there.

[pollymn]

Beautiful story Rozzie. I guess that I'm in the camp that you don't really know how you will react until you are presented with a particular situation. Don't get me wrong, as a parent, I would do everything in my power to save my child, but this father may have been doing everything in "his" power at the time. I'm glad that they are together again and apparently the little boy was never afraid.

[Rozzie]

I'm very disappointed in your response above. I think, if you were a Yankee, it would have read:
Mike and Nono, you are just too damn jaded.

And wrong. It was a really heartwarming story.
For this, Rozzie, you are banned from Jersey Week for 1 year.

But, but but....what if I walk even faster? And drink a little more? What if I drive real fast to dinner tonight, and not use my blinker?? I'll even say Miniature Golf instead of Carpet Golf for a whole year! You can't ban a honorary New Jerseyian from Jersey Week?! Where is the justice on this board?????

;) :biggulp:

[FR8TRN]

Don't get me wrong, I've been caught in a Rip current before also, takes ya right out, lifeguards had to come get me. That part I get and fully understand them being rushed away quickly......this is the part I'm talking about.....

After four hours, the currents picked up, and Christopher began to drift from his father's reach.

To drift from his reach he had to be in it at some point.....I just can't see ever letting that happen.....not to one of my boys.....

[idratherbeinwdw]

To drift from his reach he had to be in it at some point.....I just can't see ever letting that happen.....not to one of my boys.....

Are you saying if it was DW you'd let her drift? ;):p

[FR8TRN]

Are you saying if it was DW you'd let her drift? ;):p

I didn't say that out loud did I???? :eek:

[aamove1]

Great post and story Rozzie. Thank You

[jiggerj]

Oh my gosh- How did I miss this post??? I just cried all over the keyboard. :boohoohoo: What a story- what a happy ending.:goodvibes:

Personally I don't think I would or could let go of ds. But you never know what the circumstances were out there and I can't judge.

Having been pulled out and under as a kid at Martha Vineyard and only being rescued by being pulled up by my hair as I was going down...down..down (3rd time down!), I have a great fear as well as respect for the ocean.

I prefer the ocean from seeing it from the beach. :)