A 40-year-old Viennese woman fell from a stand-up paddleboard into the 5-degree Faaker Lake on Saturday afternoon and was barely kept afloat by another woman until water rescue arrived.
Two Viennese women and a woman from Lower Austria took part in a course for health and fitness trainers at Lake Faaker See on Saturday. Around 1 p.m., the women wanted to use their lunch break to try out stand-up paddleboarding. They just wanted to stay close to the coast, but were carried further by the current and wind. Suddenly, one of the women, a 40-year-old from Vienna, fell off the SUP board and could no longer move or climb onto the SUP due to the cold water.
Woman kept her head above water
Fortunately, one of the other two women was able to keep her head above water until the Faaker See water rescue team arrived. The water rescuers eventually managed to pull the woman, who was already severely hypothermic, into a boat and take her to shore. There she received emergency medical care and was taken to the Villach LKH by the rescue team. According to the emergency doctor, she was severely hypothermic, but her life was out of danger. The water rescue team calls on water sports enthusiasts to only practice water sports at low water temperatures with the right equipment, such as a wetsuit.
Source: Krone
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