Sigh...so This Is What It's Like
to lose a friend.
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<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Teen drowns in Long Beach
Long Beach
Long Beach (Newsday Photo / Peter DiCampo)
Jun 24, 2005
BY BILL MASON AND SAMUEL BRUCHEY
STAFF WRITERS
June 25, 2005
A 15-year-old boy from Flushing drowned Friday afternoon while swimming in Long Beach with a group of friends from the Bronx High School of Science, police said, the day before lifeguards are scheduled to begin full-time duty.
Yuhang Gao was swimming with 14 other boys and girls in choppy waters near Long Beach Boulevard yesterday afternoon when they were swept into a jetty by the rough waters. Many of the other swimmers received cuts and bruises, but all of them made it out of the water on their own, police said.
The teenagers flagged down a Long Beach police officer who is assigned to patrol the beach at 3:56 p.m., police said.
A search was launched using rescue units from fire departments, lifeguard units, dive teams and police departments of Nassau County, Long Beach, and New York City, involving aviation and marine bureaus.
Gao was found at 4:43 p.m. floating on the east side of the jetty, about 100 feet offshore. CPR was begun immediately, police said.
Gao was transported to Long Beach Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 5:25 p.m.
His body was transported to Nassau County Medical Center for a final determination of a cause of death.
The Long Beach Police Department is investigating the incident.
Police said that at this time of the year, lifeguards are on duty Saturday and Sunday, but there were none on duty Friday. The lifeguards are scheduled to work weekdays starting Monday.
At least two other teenagers have died in Long Beach waters in recent years while swimming when lifeguards were not present.
Two teenagers drowned in separate incidents in 2000 while swimming in Long Beach. Maurice Grey, 16, of the Bronx, died in the surf that August after he was caught in a riptide about 7 p.m., an hour after lifeguards went off duty.
Arthell McMichaels Jr. III, 12, drowned in June after he entered the water at 6:15 p.m., just 15 minutes after lifeguards went off duty. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
it sort of hurts.
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<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Teen drowns in Long Beach
Long Beach
Long Beach (Newsday Photo / Peter DiCampo)
Jun 24, 2005
BY BILL MASON AND SAMUEL BRUCHEY
STAFF WRITERS
June 25, 2005
A 15-year-old boy from Flushing drowned Friday afternoon while swimming in Long Beach with a group of friends from the Bronx High School of Science, police said, the day before lifeguards are scheduled to begin full-time duty.
Yuhang Gao was swimming with 14 other boys and girls in choppy waters near Long Beach Boulevard yesterday afternoon when they were swept into a jetty by the rough waters. Many of the other swimmers received cuts and bruises, but all of them made it out of the water on their own, police said.
The teenagers flagged down a Long Beach police officer who is assigned to patrol the beach at 3:56 p.m., police said.
A search was launched using rescue units from fire departments, lifeguard units, dive teams and police departments of Nassau County, Long Beach, and New York City, involving aviation and marine bureaus.
Gao was found at 4:43 p.m. floating on the east side of the jetty, about 100 feet offshore. CPR was begun immediately, police said.
Gao was transported to Long Beach Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 5:25 p.m.
His body was transported to Nassau County Medical Center for a final determination of a cause of death.
The Long Beach Police Department is investigating the incident.
Police said that at this time of the year, lifeguards are on duty Saturday and Sunday, but there were none on duty Friday. The lifeguards are scheduled to work weekdays starting Monday.
At least two other teenagers have died in Long Beach waters in recent years while swimming when lifeguards were not present.
Two teenagers drowned in separate incidents in 2000 while swimming in Long Beach. Maurice Grey, 16, of the Bronx, died in the surf that August after he was caught in a riptide about 7 p.m., an hour after lifeguards went off duty.
Arthell McMichaels Jr. III, 12, drowned in June after he entered the water at 6:15 p.m., just 15 minutes after lifeguards went off duty. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
it sort of hurts.
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That's really depressing, honestly. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
No Lifeguards = You're f**ked.
Edit: I meant that the life guards should either stay on duty longer, or at least put up signs that say no lifeguard on duty or no swimming or something of that extent. I'm not sure what happens in that particular area, all the swimming areas I've been to don't have lifeguards, which only further pushes the problem <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Sucks that you lost a friend though, I'll pray for you. Whether you believe or not, it helps(just to know people care).
Sucks that you lost a friend though, I'll pray for you. Whether you believe or not, it helps(just to know people care). <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
If water gets into your lungs, (when you "drown,") you still have a few minutes to perform CPR before the brain loses oxygen and brain cells die out. After that, it's over. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
@ZephyrYHK: I'm sorry man, i know that means alot coming from someone you'll never met, but its all i got.
Best of luck on the coming days, I'm sure it won't be easy.
blech, I think that is about the 4th science kid to drown in the 4 years since I left (yus, I am a BS Grad).
you have my condolences on this one.....
;(
I've not yet lost a friend, and I don't hope to anytime soon...
I'm sorry...
I won't say, that you'll feel better in time, you don't want to hear that. There's nothing to be said but that you're going to have to grieve through this.
He was diabetic, and it was believed that he went "sugar-cold" or whatever it's called in english while driving. Well, the road took a bend, the car went straight ahead and folded around a tree at 80 km/h, then burst into flames and burned out completely. We were told that he was most likely dead on the spot or at least unconscious, and didn't have to suffer through burning to death. Bitter mercy.
We weren't close friends, but he was from my year, so it was kind of odd and unsettling to hear about.
Only thing I can say is that time heals all wounds.
My condolences.