Sascha Hammer (36) wanted to test his new boat in the Röksee in Mureck in Styria on Saturday. But then a young man threatened to drown and Hammer became a savior in need at the last minute. He tells the “crown” of the dramatic minutes.
“You never know which training courses can be good,” says Sascha Hammer from Weinburg am Saßbach. Because, as a specialized social manager in southern Styria, he also has to swim with, among other things, epilepsy, the 36-year-old in 2018 trained as a lifeguard. “I owe this training that, if it went, I knew exactly what to do,” he says.
What happened? Hammer bought a small boat this Saturday and definitely wanted to do a first exit. “The Röksee in Mureck is just a few minutes from my house, so I’m there.” He was barely in the water by boat, when he heard calls to help from the couch: “A friend had seen a man immersing them in the water and no longer appeared. She knows I was a lifeguard, so she called me.”
“He was more at the top than below‘
Immediately he rowed back: “At the point where the man was immersed, two small bubbles were still visible. I immediately jumped in the water and luckily I could find it very quickly.” Hammer dragged the man to the surface and initially had no big hope: “He was more upstairs than below, you could see that on the face. He was very pale, his lips almost black.” Together with a second man who hurried to help, Hammer pulled the man on the coast and started reviving.
“After 15 pumps and two ventilations, he came to himself, spit all the water and blood from the lungs. We then brought him to the stable side position.” But the man was not saved yet: “He only breathed a tough man for almost five minutes and was hardly accessible. Only when we turned him on his back did he come to himself.” Then the salvation came and the patient took over.
“He’s fine again”
“After that I had to talk a lot about the incident to process it,” says the Lifesaver of the “Kroon”. Only on Sunday did the All-Clear come: the man-it is a 22-year-old Van Mureck-Survived everything: “I am on Cloud Seven, I have already communicated with him. He is in order again,” says Hammer. The 22-year-old has to stay in the hospital for a few days. “I really told him: I would not have wrapped it if he hadn’t survived.”
In any case, he owes Sascha Hammer that the 22-year-old can live and the training as a lifeguard he did seven years ago.
Source: Krone
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