Well! I had been sent by my editor to the lake to get a few photos. The lake was a popular swimming place but known for drownings. Hardly a year had gone by when there hadn’t been at least one drowning. The magazine was going to publish an article highlighting the dangers of swimming in the lake. Hence the need for a few photos.
When I arrived at the lake there were half a dozen people swimming about. In fact they were playing with a beach ball, tossing it one to another and judging from what I saw I deduced that the aim was to steal the beach ball off the opposition.
One of the contributing factors to the drownings is the weed. There is thick water weed growing on the lake floor and occasionally someone’s foot gets tangled in the weed and they can’t emerge.
And then a miracle happened! This woman – I suppose she was about twenty – got caught in the weed. She was jumping up and waving and gasping for air. She was going under and remerging and flaying about like an octopus. At first I thought she must have been bitten by a fish or something. Then all went still. Her beach ball friends were stunned into silence, and she sort of floated and went under. Floated and went under several times.
I managed to capture it all. My editor is going to be thrilled.
have a ball by a body of water.
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Life’s a beach…
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I’m sure you’ll win the Putzer Prize.
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I love this one… this has happened so many times…especially with phones now with cameras…forget helping them lol.
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🤦♀️
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Couldn’t have worked better if you’d planned it!
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So typical of the press today. This should be an award-winning piece.
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I don’t tell enough fibs to get a prize!
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What a lucky break!
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Exactly.
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I don’t think the family of the girl will take great relief of that article.
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I suspect not.
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A big thumbs up in circles here with this one. I imagine the reporter now is upheld as a hero for the countless future lives he has saved by his industriousness to report on this.
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He has become a Whitewash House Correspondent.
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Whitewash lol I can’t stop laughing.
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Great work! Lucky you were in the right place at the right time!
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Thanks – most people take photos of tragedies using their phones but I was lucky enough to take photos of the drowning using my high-quality camera.
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Congrats!
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