Illustration of an active SNSM member.
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F. Lodi / SIPA
They will long remember their learning.
At the end of October, two young lifeguard swimmers in training with the SNSM saved a fisherman from drowning in the bay of Port-La-Forêt, in southern Finistère.
While they were at sea to take their boat license, the two apprentices and their trainer received the Mayday relay message alerting the presence of a man overboard not far from there.
The fisherman had fallen from his dinghy while trying to reach his boat in a rough sea, swept by a strong wind.
On their arrival there, the three men discover the victim, hanging on the base of the engine, swept by the strong swell.
Equipped with a life jacket, the man was quickly rescued.
“The water was so cold that I don't think it would have lasted any longer,” said Yves Teurtroy, the trainer.
The fisherman was already hypothermic.
The trio of rescuers even took care to recover the sailboat from the man who was adrift and towed it to the port of Beg-Meil, in front of Concarneau.
The victim was handed over to the firefighters who were waiting for him on dry land.
"This testimony underlines that a person can be in distress even close to a port and that accidents do not happen only at sea," recalls the SNSM which warns of the need to wear a life jacket.
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