ON SATURDAY, a 17-year-old’s beach outing with friends took an unexpected turn when he spotted an unconscious visitor and her frantic husband by her side on Browne’s Beach, St Michael.
After finding out that the woman, Ann Freeman, had swallowed large amounts of water while diving, Dre Brown’s training instinctively kicked in and he performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on her.
Dre, a former Princess Margaret Secondary School student and a Barbados Youth Service (BYS) recruit, is an aspiring fireman, and spent part of his weekend completing the required number of hours for community service.
“We had to cut down some trees at Codrington College and after community service, we attended the beach and had some fun and played sport. When we were on the verge of going home, I passed and saw a husband with his wife and she was lying unconscious, so I basically attempted what I was taught to do,” he recalled of the Saturday incident. (TG)
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