3:30 "Why would he do this" followed immediately by "he was still a little drunk" has to be one of the most commonly heard explanations in the medical field
Chemist here, when chlorine gas comes in contact with water for example in your mucus membranes, eyes or lungs, it forms hydrochloric acid which will literally dissolve the tissue
@@AstraFluxx Citric acid is what's commonly found in lemons and other citrus fruits, and is also used to make some types of sweets/candy sour. Hydrochloric acid is the acid found in your stomach :)
Qualified people teaching babies this are doing so much good. Most people would be shocked at what babies can do in the water, and if they're taught, it can bring down the horrible number of drownings in pools.
although i'd imagine part of the reason there are fewer drownings is because a lot of the people who were taught like this will grow up terrified of water. i was thrown into the deep end of a pool by a swimming instructor as a child and I've never been able to go near deep water without having a panic attack since. my mum was taught like this as a baby and she's also terrified of swimming. i understand the logic but surely people could just keep their young children away from pools and then teach them once they're old enough to verbalise their comfort level?
@@ngcf4238 a cool piece of evolution, yes. Reason to make babies experience the feeling of drowning? No. I think the people thinking they're teaching babies how to swim fail to understand that they're floating because of just that, a reflex, and they aren't old enough to remember any skill they're supposedly gaining from this cruel method. One thing they aren't too young to remember, though? Trauma. A lifelong fear of water, and trust issues because the people who are supposed to protect you from the dangers of the world decided to let you experience almost drowning rather than supervising or at least keeping you away from bodies of water.
@@allyh7075 There's a difference between being taught water safety skills and the awful and terrifying experience that instructor put you through. You're being too biased against proper swimming instruction, though I agree with you that if a child is already afraid of the water, forcing them into it is a terrible thing to do.
@@allyh7075 there is a large diffirence. these babies are taught to swim with people holding them or very close to them if they start to sink. i was taught this way i am not terrified of water i love water. My mother fell into the pool and almost drowned which is closer to what happened to you and is terrified to put her head underwater.
Shark bite photo was Australian Rodney Fox, badly bitten by a great white in the 60s during a spearfishing competition. Photos of the open wound are horrific. He went on to become a shark advocate, helped develop the shark cage, worked on the first Jaws movie, and ran a shark tourism company in Australia that still operates today. Last time I looked he was in his 80s and still living in Australia.
Watched a clip of a guy before who got almost fatally wounded by a crocodile. Said he never blamed it. "I was in its home" I've a lot of respect for people who end up having such positive opinions of things that almost kill them
"I don't know what caused the explosion" There are a number of common pool chemicals that, when mixed together react incredibly violently. It's not a fire type explosion, but a "boiling hot chemicals just got sprayed in your face and around the room and now there's chemical gases everywhere" type explosion.
In high school we were learning about WW1 and the teacher goes oh goes oh I have a modern day example. A couple of his seniors on the football team decided the steam room wasn't steamy enough at a local hotel so they got pool water to add in. They of course got super fucked up and were later banned
Yeah, it's not a chemical but a physics explosion. Aka, like pouring water onto a deep fryer fire. There's just way too much gas being produced in a liquid at once. A bit like putting a mentos in coke, I suppose 🤣
My brother made the mistake of mixing hydrochloric acid and chlorine he needed to put both in the pool luckily he was outside and was close to the pool so he was able to throw it in the pool and the resulting cloud wasn't contained inside a building. Be careful when mixing Chemicals chlorine is very reactive to other chemicals, so never a good idea to mix stuff unless you are sure of how they will react to each other.
The baby floating in the pool has had ISR lessons(Infant Swim Rescue). I highly recommend parents look into them. They teach babies to float on their backs if they accidentally fall into a body of water, and as they get older, they learn to add on to their floating skills with swimming. They teach them to swim and go back into their float if they get tired. It’s amazing to see.
Tbf not all water has sharks, but I agree that it should be called something else. ALRIGHT I GET IT NOT ALL HOUSES HAVE PEOPLE but they (houses) are made by people, for people. Also saying not all land has [speciesName] would be a more accurate counterpoint to the point I'm tryna make
We lived in Florida when my kids were babies and these swim lessons are incredibly common and highly encouraged. It’s called ISR (infant swim rescue), and literally just teaches babies & young kids how to safely react if they fall into a body of water. Very important in places like Florida where everyone has a pool and/or beach access!
I grew up in Florida and I just kinda swam my whole life, but I don't remember when or where I learned how to swim. I don't doubt that this was how I learned
I'm sorry i don't believe in that stuff. Very young infants have reflexes that help them, but i don't see how you can train them. And it has nothing to do with the ability to swim later in life. Seems to be more of a placebo for parents.
@@antonnurwald5700they do have reflexes that help them, but I think it’s teaching them to pair those reflexes with cues, to be calm in those scenarios, and keeping those reflexes beyond when they’d normally fade out. My kids started lessons at 2mo, and it definitely helps. My 2.5mo can take a breath and hold it underwater, he could do that first try not training as it’s a reflex. But what we then teach is a cue (some places do 1,2,3, but we do a sharp intake of breath like a gasp). And after a couple weeks, if anyone gasps around the pool you see all these babies take a sharp breath ready to go under water 😂. My Bub the instant he was in the water knew how to back float and was doing it on his own by the second time in a pool. It’s natural for them. BUT it fades. My eldest stopped lessons due to Covid, and had to relearn everything. Whereas my 2yo didn’t, he went through a stage of hating back floating, but he still knows all that stuff, by 18mo could fall in a pool and turn himself back to the edge and pull himself up. I don’t actually have to be in a pool with him now, he’s 2yo. Obvs I still am but he can swim on his own well enough. It’s keeping the skills in practice so they don’t lose those reflexes.
'' A 6 MONTH OLD GIRL THROWN INTO A POOL BY HER PARENTS WHILE THEY LAUGHED AND THREW ROCKS AT HER ''. I love how the media portrays things to get people fired up. What a messy institution. I have also heard(never made further research to confirm or deny) that very young toddlers have the natural instinct to float on their back when put in water.
"I have also heard(never made further research to confirm or deny) that very young toddlers have the natural instinct to float on their back when put in water." I have also heard this and not done a deep dive of research into to confirm or deny, but I would imagine that even if babies (6+ months) and toddlers do have the instinct; they would not have the skills developed to utilize their instincts to the best ability. I could see that training/teaching a better way could increase the chance of survival if the baby fell into a body of water. And before someone says that babies are too young to learn, I mean I know some parents that were able to teach their babies limited sign language to communicate their needs and I also don't see the harm in helping the babies develop their muscles to use their instincts better if they have them.
Glad someone else noticed the misleading phrasing from the news reporter too. They made it sound so bad when the video shows it was a controlled environment with two supervisors
I was like, ya I understand babies float but than the son drowning part reminded me of the story "Room" by Emma Donoghue. I hope she isn't just a Psycho mama
Here in Germany new parents are very much encouraged to enroll their kids into baby swimming lessons. Every swimming center offers them. To minimize the amount of drowning deaths involving children and teenagers during summer months. Because at that age kids aren't very good at calculating risks and coupled with weak swimming ability it can lead to tragic results.
exactly! this is actually a common technique to teach babies and toddlers to save themselves from drowning and is teached by experts. the children are never in any danger as long as it's done with professionals and is very effective in preventing drowning accidents. drowning happens fast and quietly, it's often already too late as soon someone notices it, so the best way is to train and solidify the babies natural instinct of rolling on their backs when accidentally falling into the water. they need to do it instinctively when it catches them by suprise, which is why you see all those videos of adults pushing an unsuspecting and fully clothed child into a pool, so it can learn to react in a very realistic setting. catching the child by surprise is actually part of it, because this is how those accidents happen in reality.
As a surfer I was always told that if you get caught in a rip current, swim parallel to the shore until you‘re out of the rip current, then swim back if you have energy Edit: As a surfer I was also taught that I can use rip currents to preserve energy. Instead of having to paddle out against the waves I could just take a rip current which pulls me out, then swim to the side to get out of it and surf back to shore. Advantage is that rip currents can be visible because the waves don‘t fully break over them (at least that‘s what I learned). Also the way those currents form is that it‘s the water flowing back out to sea through a channel between two sandbanks.
Absolutelly. The rip tides come from normal waves that come easily over a small ridge but mostly escape through a weaker spot that rarely wider than a dozen meters. Trying to stay in is is by farthe worst idea, but always remember everyone lose 90% of their intelligence in immediate danger situation. Best case is that you already know what to do, seconfd best option is to force yourself to spend 1s looking around.
Same here, been going to the beach since I was born. The idea is that eventually the riptide should help you, and hopefully let go near enough shore. Floating and treading water are also vital skills.
With the very last case, I have absolutely no doubt that the underwater rescue breaths bought him the time he needed. That was an extremely freaking smart thing to do.
@@ToxicTotorohow do you know that he had water in his lungs? And your wording.. ‘full of water‘. If his lungs were full of water he’d be long dead considering this child was under water for almost eight minutes with no oxygen and bad cpr. If the boy held his breath and the man giving him mouth to mouth oxygen I can see why it still turned out well.
As a certified pool operator, they should’ve immediately turned off the pumps and motors for that lazy River much faster than that. The way the drains work is the pump takes some water through pipes and into a pump room where it gets filtered and treated and then the new water automatically goes back into the pool. But when you turn the pump off it immediately releases the strong suction since it’s not sucking water anymore. So when the child got stuck the pool operator on duty should’ve immediately activated their EAP and turned the pump off. This would’ve saved them more time. That child is so lucky they did not lose their life because in extreme situations those drains would’ve torn him apart because of the strong suction.
@@emilypage5872 that's what I was thinking. It took them THAT long?! I know there's no lifeguards on duty, but how is it that no one was able to turn off the pumps for that long? That's crazy. As soon as there were other people involved, that should have been the first thing.
The story about the sunburned children actually made me cry. I've been sunburned many times and I know how painful even a mild sunburn is. To be burned that badly...I can't even imagine how much that must hurt.
That one had me furious honestly. Daycare doesn't have enough sunblock and doesn't want to enforce the kids wearing protective clothing, and it results in this.
I can't either, and I've had a few sunburns in my life. But thankfully never had ones that bad. I've spent hours in the sun without sun cream and didn't get blisters. Burns yes, but not blisters, and that's with the Australian sun. Makes me wonder just how negligent the kindergarten was.
Doctor Mike's advice on the currents is very important. I'm a professional survival swim instructor for children and babies and the number one thing we teach kids is how to calmly float on their back, and we work over a period of months to make sure that kids can hold their floats while splashing water all around them vigorously to ensure they survive this kind of scenario.
Unfortunately said advice won't work for everyone. Most people yes, but then you've got the skinny and/or muscular guys who literally do not have enough fat to float no matter how perfect their form is.
@robo7643 Same, and I even use the correct form. Unfortunately, I don't have enough fat to float. On anything less than full lungs, my body's got negative buoyancy. And I kind of need to breathe.
@@bolbyballingertry bending your knees at a 90 degree angle so your shins and feet dangle below you, and lift your arms above your head in line with the rest of your body. So your body is straight from your hands down to your to your knees. Relax completely the whole time. If that doesn’t work then yes, there is no hope of floating for you lol
That last one is valid proof that pools need emergency pump shut-off buttons similar to the buttons at gas pumps. Had there been one in an easy to spot location, he probably would not have been underwater for so long. Fun fact. Water rides at most theme parks have a reservoir and are higher than said reservoir. The purpose of the reservoir is to act as an emergency run off in the event of an emergency. If an employee pulls the E-Stop, all water pumps stop. Without the pumps to keep the water levels up on the ride, all of the water drains into the reservoir. This would allow for any guests that get stuck underwater to have a chance to survive.
The boys shouldn't have been able to remove that grate in the first place. It should have been fixed correctly. And may be there even was an emergency pump shutnoff and no on thought to use it before 7:30.
I’m an electrical engineer that deals a lot with marinas and boatyards. Never swim in or near a marina…. Ever! There are required safeguards for new marinas, but these do not guarantee against electric shock drowning. Also, older marinas are not required to update to the newer electrical codes until they replace the docks.
7:00 Actually I think that mom was doing just fine letting her baby attempt to float like that. There's two adults supervising her, she's taking lessons and all in all, she seems to be doing just fine. Also that story of her losing her son to drowning is heartbreaking and really shows why everyone should learn the basics of swimming.
12:56, they run out of sunscreen and NO ONE thought “hey, we have no way of properly protecting these children from the sun anymore, we should head back to the daycare!” The level of neglect to allow this to happen …
It was the add on of "...and they didn't want to wear their shirts..." that got me. How about they don't have a choice?? Sure we want kids to be free to have fun but not at the expense of their health and safety 🤦🏾♀️
So crazy, Zach (the man who lost his leg due to flesh-eating bacteria in Fort Myers) is my mom's handyman. He's a very nice, hard-working guy, and it's a shame what happened to him- to my knowledge he's still waiting on a settlement from the city. Didn't think I'd randomly run into someone I know on a Dr. Mike video today! 😅
Cases like his have become more common in Florida waters these days. Something about rising sea temperatures being more hospitable to those sorts of bacteria & toxic algae blooms. I'm sorry to hear he went through this and hope he's been adapting/recovering well!
Yeah, Florida’s ecological situation has been on rapid decline for decades now. It blows my mind that a state whose entire economy runs on tourism would continue to actively destroy/ fail to protect its own greatest asset- beautiful beaches and plant/animal diversity 😢
@@marylane6835 I believe so- a global rise in vibrio infections has been linked with climate change due rise in water temps and changing ocean patterns.
As a licensed pilot, the recommended waiting times to prevent DCS are 12 hours after diving, which does not require a controlled ascent, and 24 hours if the diving does require a controlled ascent. This is for altitudes in flight up to 8000 ft. For any commercial airline, you want to wait 24 hours after the dive, with or without a controlled ascent.
I don't plan on ever going SCUBA diving, but that's super useful info to have - thanks for sharing it so people who do go SCUBA diving have it at hand!
As a PICU nurse, I love love LOVE infant swimming lessons! Of course you shouldn’t have your child near water unsupervised, but accidents happen and the child being able to survive for a few minutes can save their lifes. I think every parent with a pool or a garden pond should look into infant swimming lessons.
I'm a Shark Lawyer, and my clients have informed me that 1:12 was a tad bit unnecessary profiling, especially coming from a doctor. They're not mad, they're sad and disappointed lmao
6:29 As somone who has a disability and has been swimming there whole life in my opinion this is great that this mother is teaching her daughter to swim at such a younge age it is such an important skill to know
that last one has me gasping for air myself. children are so curious, what a terrifying incident. so glad he's okay, and that the first guy thought to give him air like that
As someone that has has multiple major sunburns as a child living in New Zealand, I am happy people have realized the dangers involved. When you can pull a sheet of skin off you that is the same size as the torso it came off, maybe hospitalization is a better option than covering your child in as much aloe vera juice as you can get out of the plant without killing it.
I contracted necrotising fasciitis back in August 2022, but not from water. I believe it was from contracting Strep A that turned invasive. My whole right leg swelled up, turned red and got massive blisters all over. I had emergency surgery on my leg and was in hospital five and a half weeks, then it took from October 2022 until March 2024 for the surgical wounds to fully heal (I also caught Covid while in hospital). I have to wear compression stockings for the rest of my life, but I have my leg and my life, which I am so, so grateful for. The more I hear about about necrotising fasciitis, the more I realise just how lucky and fortunate I am (I'm from the UK).
@@StarPlatinum3000 It was very painful, but it was more the psychological side to the events that hurt the most. I'm on the autism spectrum and I'd never been away from home for such a long length of time before and I was terrified every single day. Plus, because the doctors didn't know what I had for the first few weeks, I was kept in isolation for that time and it was hell. The only physical pain I had was when the dressings on my leg had to be changed. I did get therapy to help me deal with what happened, but I'm still nervous around hospitals and whenever I get a sore throat.
4:15 I'm a swim instructor/life gaurd for kids. I felt so happy hearing him mention that it's safest to be on your back. That is my "chest compression" 6:31 I was so confused why people were mad. Like that baby rolled over amazingly. She was floating face stayed above water. It was instant as well. I'd get the concern if she splashed around a bit before rolling. But even the baby stayed calm.
I used to teach baby swimming classes at the YMCA! It's a lot of fun and any parent who has the resources to do so should. The babies also have a blast and it's great social time for parents. Once the babies learn how to float, they are sat up on the edge of the pool at the end of class and encouraged to belly flop into the water towards their parents. Most of the babies think it's really fun and want to do it multiple times. Accidents happen. Better your baby falls into a pool under supervision and learning how to save themselves than them falling into the pool during a drunken family reunion.
Hey Mike! Just wanted to let you know how much you have truly inspired me to keep my eyes open for medical misinformation when it comes to things and I always go to your videos before I listen to any medical information. Thanks!
2:51 Common misconception about snakes! They will not go after humans at all unless absolutely necessary (Like on the brink of death starvation) Because we are simply too big for them to see any worth in going after us.
Close, but not quite. They don't go after humans because we're predators to them. It would be like a wolf hunting grizzly bears for food. Snakes are naturally terrified of humans. Unless those girls were covered in the scent of something the python does eat (snakes are dumb, this is enough to make them think you're a different creature sometimes), and they don't threaten the python, they're gonna be perfectly fine. People think snakes are these cunning, deceitful monsters but in reality, they're socially anxious spaghetti that have no thoughts in their head.
Although this species HAS eaten people we certainly are not seen as a prey source to them. Its an incredibly rare case that's exaggerated to make people fear snakes more. We certainly aren't a prey source to them since snakes don't even like eating humans because we're oddly shaped and aren't easily swallowed. Im not saying it hasn't happened, because it has, BUT to say "Known to prey on humans" unnecessarily exaggerates it and makes them seem a lot more dangerous than they are. (Although this animal should still be approached with caution, like any other unfamiliar animal)
Babyswimming is a common thing to do during maternity leave in Denmark. It's good for the child's physical development, and it's just a fun way for parent and child to interact. Of course you don't let go of the child for even a second, and it takes place in specially heated water to make sure the babies don't get cold. It results in many children being able to swim from a very early age.
I was diving at 30 feet in Key West. Three days straight four dives a day. Our dive master told us to get out of the water 20 minutes into our last dive. Thankfully, he had calculated our decompression times. Silly of me not to do it. Thanks, Mike!
There should be no reason to abort after just 20 minutes. (unless you ran out of oxygen, or there were dangers like currents or sharks, at least - or running out of daylight if you're not certified for night dives, or your boat needing to return to harbor, etc) Doing so many dives in such short succession, is not a decompression risk (especially if you only go to 30 ft max). You'd just need a lot more time waiting at 15-10 feet before completely concluding the dive (safety stop). Do you remember any other details? Your story makes me wanna refresh my PADI Advanced cuz it shouldn't have been needed 😅🤔
Why was your dive computer not calculating that? Or were you not Open Water Diver certified and just on a 4-day pass from an afternoon lesson kinda thing?
4:03 I live at the beach, the reason rip currents are “deadly” is because people fight the current. They get exhausted and end up drowning, we actually had a 13 year old drown due to this yesterday. Don’t fight the current, swim to the side and get out of the current that way
This. The natural instinct is to fight against it and get to shore, but moving diagonally or perpendicular to the current is the only way you're getting out on your own.
In Florida, or at my school at least, it's taught to students in elementary school to always swim parallel, and is brought up multiple times throughout school about beach safety. I've been caught in rip currents before but thankfully I've been able to get myself back without the help of any life guards. Heck I didn't even realize I was in a rip current once until I realized my swimming wasn't working so I just stopped and floated on my back for a bit to get my energy back
If you're caught in a rip current you could try to swim parallel to the shore to escape it before you get taken too far out. That said don't exhaust yourself before you're back to shore
1:14 I study sharks as a hobby and she got SO lucky it went for her arm and not a more vital spot which sharks aim for, sharks usually bite once and realize their mistake but one bite can still be catastrophic in the wrong spot
1:40 Water is what we call an incompressible fluid, meaning it can't really be squeezed together like gases can. It'll begin to heat up and possibly cavitate, but it doesn't like being squeezed. So if it doesn't have time to move out of your way, it acts like a solid. That's why high dives, above 20 feet or so, can be fatal. If you hit wrong, you can shatter ribs, collapse lungs, and be knocked unconscious to drown.
A lotta ball boys/girls along the back wall taking balls to the face. The real tennis injuries is the long term damage to the joints. Show somebody recovering from rotator cuff surgery or tennis elbow. "Here's 72 year old Margaret who has just had her second knee done. She has Fernanda in at the moment doing the cleaning so she can focus on her elastic band PT."
with regards to the burmese python, at work (reptile rescue & education) we consider them safe for children to handle if two experience adults are present & depending on the size of the child, one of the adults will support the weight of the snake. we don’t even handle them unless there are two adults present (including the handler). chances are it will be completely fine, and our burm is a right sweetie, but it is always possible that they get spooked especially around unpredictable children or children that don’t know how to properly interact with animals. putting them in a stressful environment like an enclosed pool with no easy exit in the video makes them more likely to act defensively, but if there are adults there then they would likely be able to get the snake off the kid
The thing with sharks is that biting is one way they test to see if something is food. We aren't food so they usually then just let go. But that bite can be devastating to us cuz we're so soft and squishy.
For that last video, it just goes to show how dangerous Delta-P situations can be. There's a classic PSA video about this on UA-cam that shows just how horrific they are.
@@hyperboles6563 1kg per liter, in fact. So when you go down to depth, you need to think about how many liters of water are stacked over you. (A liter is a 10cm x 10cm x 10cm cube of volume.) For reference, an average woman is around 78kg, and an average man around 84kg.
I was thinking about the baby learning how to swim when a few videos later the little boy fell into the pool. Thankfully his dad was right there but if he wasn’t it could have saved his life if he was taught how to swim.
I was wondering if baby swim lessons weren't a thing in the states. Here in Finland they're quite common. If you take the baby to water early enough they retain the reflex from the womb to hold their breath. And of course the parents are always right there in the water with them to make sure they're safe
@@katrivanhatalo2207 It’s not that common but I think it is getting more popular. The more people see it on social media the more it will get out there though!
@@katrivanhatalo2207 In Florida they definitely are. There's water EVERYWHERE, from pools to ponds, rivers, lakes, daily summer rainfall creating road flooding due to drainage issues, not to mention hurricanes and their flood events from storm surge or an overabundance of prolonged rainfall. It isn't just for having fun. It can literally save the lives of small children in emergency situations.
4:49 do the rescue chain only if you are a qualified rescuer and you are trained for this, because as dr Mike said, more people can be lost and it will take you more time (Btw I literally learned to do the rescue chain in the life savor course today and I was a lil taken aback by his statement lol)
The clip of the guy jumping off the ship reminded me of a story my dad told me when he was in the Navy. He jumped off the ship as a dare and then got in trouble because despite being unharmed, they thought a man went overboard and when they called for the swim and rescue.........my dad was the swim and rescue.
This video was very informative, since I will be going on cruise very soon 🚢. - No getting drunk and jumping off the ship -No giving and flying -Bring sun block -Be on the look out for sharks 👌
Reptile nerd here. I would worry about the snek stressing out in the water, not knowing what’s going on or where it is, not being acclimated to the outdoor weather or the cool pool water, and not having good gripping surfaces and instinctively clinging to the nearest climbable thing it can find (nearby human).
hello doctor mike! i have been watching your channel for 3+ years and as a teenager you have taught me so much. you even made me become the person i am today. i am more interested than ever in medicine, and the thought of it makes me really happy. words cant put into how much i wanna thank you for everything. you have amazing humor and a great personality, theres never a dull moment with you around. you have truly changed the world for the best. i never got to say how much i appreciate you since i always forget to because of your amazing videos. i hope you continue being awesome, good luck on your journey! love from greece❤
Hey dr Mike I didn’t see a video for multiple sclerosis. I found out that I have it a month ago and I like the way you explain everything. Thank you for explaining illnesses not in “doctor words”
yesterday i was swimming in some river rapids in my town, and a 4 year old kid got swept in by the jetty. I got to him within maybe 10 seconds, but he went under so silently and his father was several meters downstream and couldn’t hear us screaming for him. Kid was crying the second his face hit the air, so i was just glad i didn’t have to remember my CPR training from a decade ago. Life jackets are so important. i’m still pretty shaken up by it, actually. the family didn’t speak english so i couldn’t talk to them. i just went home.
the best way to see rip currents (or at least what I've been told by lifeguards) is to see where waves form crossing patterns and if they are breaking at weird, usually diagonal, angles. There can also be water discoloration, but imo that's much harder to spot.
10:30 When you mix pool chlorine and water it causes a exothermic reaction, which can result it something resembling a explosion. Never mix small amounts of water with large amounts of chlorine (especially powder) because the water will heat up extremely quickly
im a swimmer, one time off the blocks, i dove onto my friend as he was coming in. we werent hurt other than a couple of scratches but it was still scary
@Idontknow-br6me Tbf, a doctor that's also on UA-cam usually isn't the most consistent creator out there. I can only name a few off the top of my head of hundreds, outside of shorts creators anyway (which, because of how short form content is, it feels more harmful than helpful to use shorts exclusively, but that's a whole other thing). So Dr. Mike being this consistent, having moderate length videos, and having proper editing on top of being a full time doctor is something noteworthy in my eyes. Most people just choose one career, ya know? He has two.
Literally one of the things that is stressed the most when learning how to scuba dive through reputable dive schools, is that you absolutely cannot - under no circumstances - fly for a recommended time of 36-48 hours after diving, and the deeper you dive, the longer that time is. When I was getting my license, it was stressed to me so many times that even when underwater doing a dive my dive instructor and dive master quizzed me on it (using dive hand signals and extra ones he taught us before diving). I went on a scuba diving holiday, and our flight home was on the Monday, but the trip planners and the family I went with refused to let us dive after Friday to avoid this issue. Edit: I know the graphic put up says 12-24 hours, but we were told 36-48 to absolutely ensure without a doubt that this would not happen. The dive school I qualified with does the search and rescue where I live, and the whole crew collectively agreed that they would rather treat a shark bite or drowning than decompression sickness or a burst lung.
He didn't know what to expect, so he did what any inquisitive kid would do; experiment and explore. I wouldn't expect most kids to know what Delta P is.
@@kyliehughes8170 it was a lazy river. shouldn't need any supervision for that, especially since they're not alone there. there was another kid who was able to get help for him
8:26 and this here is the reason why the mom at 6:35 is teaching her daughter to save herself in the pool...if the 18 month old was taught, father wouldnt have had to go supermanning over the damn fence lol
Dr. Mike do you know who Bethany Hamilton is? She's a one-arm surf champion. She lost her arm at a young age from a shark while surfing. Don't remember the kind of shark it was. There was a movie made about her attack and life called Soul Surfer.
Hated that movie. They just kill a random shark halfway through it and act like it’s some God blessed vengeance. For Christian producers they didn’t seem to respect gods creation very well :/
With rip tides I was always taught that if you get caught in one don't swim against it swim across it as they're not usually that wide and are caused by a channel under the water you can also use the current to hour benefit it's like if you get caught in a river swim with but across the current will eventually bring you to a river bank where you can climb out
My swim coach tells us that if were in a race and we start getting lightheaded to grab the lane lines because someone will almost immediately try to help you. He also told us if we feel light headed before a race we are not swimming it because he doesn't want us to faint and drown. And if we can't breathe even with all the breaths we get to hold onto the lane line. He tells our parents that swimming can be fun but the water is the worst enemy. He does a good job teaching us how to do chest compressions. And when we time the younger kids meets he tells us to keep watch on the swimmer because theyre still young and don't understand how to get the water out and keep swimming.
1:33 They let us middle schoolers jump off a high diving board . The worst part off it was when you hit the water and your so far down in the pool and you have to swim back up before you run out of air.
When it comes to the snake, realistically she was in very little danger. Snakes are very predictable in terms of their body language, and the snake is very relaxed and just sniffing. It is important to remember that they are still wild animals and it only takes one wrong move for something to go wrong. For this reason, experienced handlers of large snakes will advise anyone to not handle snakes over 6ft in length with no one else present. But as the girl was supervised and the snake was relaxed it was relatively safe.
@@judyb4155 Definitely not alone, and it can be very easy to lose consciousness if they get around your neck and start constricting. In terms of getting it off, it depends on the size of the snake. If it's smaller someone else may be able to get it off. If it's large like in the video it's best to have multiple try, but unfortunately sometimes the best course of action is just to kill the snake. Although Im not 100% sure about that.
Thanks for the answers. I live in the UK where I am, happily, never likely to need to know but I have always wondered. Like, I’ve heard you should run in a zig zag to escape an alligator chasing you and there’s something about punching sharks on the nose but this is the first advice I’ve had on boa constrictors.
3:00 I've held snakes before. Nothing that big, but I have held many garter snakes, racers, and, once, a copperhead that a park ranger had. It was not defanged but was used to humans and very docile. I think they're very interesting. Humans get spooked because snakes are noodles that move, but most aren't really any more dangerous than a cat or dog, just much less used to humans. Constrictors constrict out of habit but aren't usually trying to eat humans; we're too big and they only eat like twice a month.
yeah “most” is the problem, i’m sure if specific breeds of cats/dogs were poisonous humans wouldn’t approach either 😭 most people aren’t gonna know which are dangerous and which aren’t, it’s just not worth the risk
@@jolovesyou The venomous ones have triangular, as opposed to round, heads, except for the ones that don't. Nonvenomous snakes also have rounded, as opposed to elliptical, pupils, except for the ones that mimic venomous snakes and don't. They also have different tail vents, so just pick them up and check.
@@richeybaumann1755 well no i know all of that, but that’s like telling someone to go pick up a shark because most of them are actually harmless, they can still bite you, poisonous or not, and believe it or not it’s worse than a dog/cat… if i got bitten i don’t think my first instinct would be to chase down the snake and pick it up, it’s awesome if you can tell but don’t make it sound like people are stupid if they don’t, considering you’ve said yourself you have experience doing so. plus i don’t think anyone thinks snakes try to eat us lmao, just bite out of defense
Can i just say , i used to do polar bears quite often (jumping in the water , the 1st of January , in Canada) and even with knowing hoe it feels , when i fell in the water from a fishing boat (in may, in the Atlantic) , it still feels like a punch in the head every time!
6:27 *baby being put into a pool to learn to swim with supervison* BABY LEFT TO FEND FOR ITSELF AFTER BEING LURED INTO A POOL BY A BRIGHTLY COLOURED SANDAL ‼️‼️ 😂
10:20 I have had chemical burn as a swimmer a few times, it usually affects the chest and lung aria. Chlorine needs to react with a liquid to create heat and that is most of the time in your lungs. It takes a lot normally to have this reaction and will result in you needing to take a few days away from the pool to heal. Btw something not known by all is if your pool does not have enough air flow you can crest a thin layer of chlorine gas on top of the pool which will irritate your lungs when breathed in.
Babies have a natural survival instinct to now drown, meaning they will roll over on their back if they fall in water. It’s actually really common in nordic countries to have the same kind of swimming class for babies, and it’s good for your baby to rehearse
If my nonexistent child slipped away and fell into that pool, there would be either a cartoon hole in the fence shaped like my legs or shredded flesh from my shins…because there is no way in hell I’m wasting ANY time running around that fence.
@@brenda5511 I don’t see the woman, but I do see the dude who was standing by the door and didn’t hear the pitter patter of baby feet…😒 I don’t care if that’s not my kid. That fence is toast and all those adults are getting a heated lecture on safety.
I live in RI, on the beach…when you’re caught in a rip current (riptide) you’re to swim parallel with the shore until you no longer feel the rip, then swim back to shore
For a rip current you just swim parallel to the shore line for rip currents going out to sea. That way you can swim out of one. Once you are out of the rip current you can let the ocean bring you back to shore easier swimming towards the beach. If the rip current is going down the shore line, just swim back to shore.
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3:30 "Why would he do this" followed immediately by "he was still a little drunk" has to be one of the most commonly heard explanations in the medical field
Why I don’t drink
Chemist here, when chlorine gas comes in contact with water for example in your mucus membranes,
eyes or lungs, it forms hydrochloric acid which will literally dissolve the tissue
That's stomach acid... right? I'm pretty sure it's hydrochloric acid
@@YuriDyatlovYD it is
isnt that like citric acid or is that lemons?
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Citric acid is what's commonly found in lemons and other citrus fruits, and is also used to make some types of sweets/candy sour. Hydrochloric acid is the acid found in your stomach :)
Ironic that we use chlorine in water to get rid of illnesses but when you combine them they hurt you.
Qualified people teaching babies this are doing so much good. Most people would be shocked at what babies can do in the water, and if they're taught, it can bring down the horrible number of drownings in pools.
although i'd imagine part of the reason there are fewer drownings is because a lot of the people who were taught like this will grow up terrified of water. i was thrown into the deep end of a pool by a swimming instructor as a child and I've never been able to go near deep water without having a panic attack since. my mum was taught like this as a baby and she's also terrified of swimming. i understand the logic but surely people could just keep their young children away from pools and then teach them once they're old enough to verbalise their comfort level?
The mammalian dive reflex is also a real cool piece of evolution that we have.
@@ngcf4238 a cool piece of evolution, yes. Reason to make babies experience the feeling of drowning? No. I think the people thinking they're teaching babies how to swim fail to understand that they're floating because of just that, a reflex, and they aren't old enough to remember any skill they're supposedly gaining from this cruel method. One thing they aren't too young to remember, though? Trauma. A lifelong fear of water, and trust issues because the people who are supposed to protect you from the dangers of the world decided to let you experience almost drowning rather than supervising or at least keeping you away from bodies of water.
@@allyh7075 There's a difference between being taught water safety skills and the awful and terrifying experience that instructor put you through. You're being too biased against proper swimming instruction, though I agree with you that if a child is already afraid of the water, forcing them into it is a terrible thing to do.
@@allyh7075 there is a large diffirence. these babies are taught to swim with people holding them or very close to them if they start to sink. i was taught this way i am not terrified of water i love water. My mother fell into the pool and almost drowned which is closer to what happened to you and is terrified to put her head underwater.
Shark bite photo was Australian Rodney Fox, badly bitten by a great white in the 60s during a spearfishing competition. Photos of the open wound are horrific. He went on to become a shark advocate, helped develop the shark cage, worked on the first Jaws movie, and ran a shark tourism company in Australia that still operates today. Last time I looked he was in his 80s and still living in Australia.
I remember in our biology class when I was in 5th grade in 1991 they actually showed it in our shark section part of the book , it was traumatizing
An Australian you say? Named Rodney?
Rodney! Rodneyyyy!!!
Watched a clip of a guy before who got almost fatally wounded by a crocodile. Said he never blamed it. "I was in its home"
I've a lot of respect for people who end up having such positive opinions of things that almost kill them
@@MayJay1812 "it" is what you call inanimate objects not living beings, nor are they "things"
oh so he worked on the one movie that gave that bad reputation to all of the sharks.. What a great advocate!
"I don't know what caused the explosion"
There are a number of common pool chemicals that, when mixed together react incredibly violently. It's not a fire type explosion, but a "boiling hot chemicals just got sprayed in your face and around the room and now there's chemical gases everywhere" type explosion.
In high school we were learning about WW1 and the teacher goes oh goes oh I have a modern day example. A couple of his seniors on the football team decided the steam room wasn't steamy enough at a local hotel so they got pool water to add in. They of course got super fucked up and were later banned
Yeah, it's not a chemical but a physics explosion.
Aka, like pouring water onto a deep fryer fire.
There's just way too much gas being produced in a liquid at once.
A bit like putting a mentos in coke, I suppose 🤣
Pressure explosions can be nasty. We learned some common examples of what not to do in high school chemistry.
Ok… who the hell mixes their pool’s chemicals in the house? That’s just stupid in every way
My brother made the mistake of mixing hydrochloric acid and chlorine he needed to put both in the pool luckily he was outside and was close to the pool so he was able to throw it in the pool and the resulting cloud wasn't contained inside a building.
Be careful when mixing Chemicals chlorine is very reactive to other chemicals, so never a good idea to mix stuff unless you are sure of how they will react to each other.
The baby floating in the pool has had ISR lessons(Infant Swim Rescue). I highly recommend parents look into them. They teach babies to float on their backs if they accidentally fall into a body of water, and as they get older, they learn to add on to their floating skills with swimming. They teach them to swim and go back into their float if they get tired. It’s amazing to see.
Saying shark infested water is like saying human infested houses. I mean, they live there man. That's just rude 😂
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lol
Tbf not all water has sharks, but I agree that it should be called something else.
ALRIGHT I GET IT NOT ALL HOUSES HAVE PEOPLE
but they (houses) are made by people, for people. Also saying not all land has [speciesName] would be a more accurate counterpoint to the point I'm tryna make
Man what do you mean, ain't no sharks in the sea where I live
theres shark free water and abandoned houses
We lived in Florida when my kids were babies and these swim lessons are incredibly common and highly encouraged. It’s called ISR (infant swim rescue), and literally just teaches babies & young kids how to safely react if they fall into a body of water. Very important in places like Florida where everyone has a pool and/or beach access!
I grew up in Florida and I just kinda swam my whole life, but I don't remember when or where I learned how to swim. I don't doubt that this was how I learned
I'm sorry i don't believe in that stuff. Very young infants have reflexes that help them, but i don't see how you can train them. And it has nothing to do with the ability to swim later in life. Seems to be more of a placebo for parents.
@@antonnurwald5700they do have reflexes that help them, but I think it’s teaching them to pair those reflexes with cues, to be calm in those scenarios, and keeping those reflexes beyond when they’d normally fade out. My kids started lessons at 2mo, and it definitely helps. My 2.5mo can take a breath and hold it underwater, he could do that first try not training as it’s a reflex. But what we then teach is a cue (some places do 1,2,3, but we do a sharp intake of breath like a gasp). And after a couple weeks, if anyone gasps around the pool you see all these babies take a sharp breath ready to go under water 😂. My Bub the instant he was in the water knew how to back float and was doing it on his own by the second time in a pool. It’s natural for them. BUT it fades. My eldest stopped lessons due to Covid, and had to relearn everything. Whereas my 2yo didn’t, he went through a stage of hating back floating, but he still knows all that stuff, by 18mo could fall in a pool and turn himself back to the edge and pull himself up. I don’t actually have to be in a pool with him now, he’s 2yo. Obvs I still am but he can swim on his own well enough. It’s keeping the skills in practice so they don’t lose those reflexes.
I’m in Australia and it’s the same here.
@@antonnurwald5700then why do infants drown?
'' A 6 MONTH OLD GIRL THROWN INTO A POOL BY HER PARENTS WHILE THEY LAUGHED AND THREW ROCKS AT HER ''.
I love how the media portrays things to get people fired up. What a messy institution.
I have also heard(never made further research to confirm or deny) that very young toddlers have the natural instinct to float on their back when put in water.
"I have also heard(never made further research to confirm or deny) that very young toddlers have the natural instinct to float on their back when put in water."
I have also heard this and not done a deep dive of research into to confirm or deny, but I would imagine that even if babies (6+ months) and toddlers do have the instinct; they would not have the skills developed to utilize their instincts to the best ability. I could see that training/teaching a better way could increase the chance of survival if the baby fell into a body of water. And before someone says that babies are too young to learn, I mean I know some parents that were able to teach their babies limited sign language to communicate their needs and I also don't see the harm in helping the babies develop their muscles to use their instincts better if they have them.
Glad someone else noticed the misleading phrasing from the news reporter too.
They made it sound so bad when the video shows it was a controlled environment with two supervisors
I was like, ya I understand babies float but than the son drowning part reminded me of the story "Room" by Emma Donoghue. I hope she isn't just a Psycho mama
Here in Germany new parents are very much encouraged to enroll their kids into baby swimming lessons. Every swimming center offers them. To minimize the amount of drowning deaths involving children and teenagers during summer months. Because at that age kids aren't very good at calculating risks and coupled with weak swimming ability it can lead to tragic results.
exactly! this is actually a common technique to teach babies and toddlers to save themselves from drowning and is teached by experts. the children are never in any danger as long as it's done with professionals and is very effective in preventing drowning accidents. drowning happens fast and quietly, it's often already too late as soon someone notices it, so the best way is to train and solidify the babies natural instinct of rolling on their backs when accidentally falling into the water. they need to do it instinctively when it catches them by suprise, which is why you see all those videos of adults pushing an unsuspecting and fully clothed child into a pool, so it can learn to react in a very realistic setting. catching the child by surprise is actually part of it, because this is how those accidents happen in reality.
As a surfer I was always told that if you get caught in a rip current, swim parallel to the shore until you‘re out of the rip current, then swim back if you have energy
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As a surfer I was also taught that I can use rip currents to preserve energy.
Instead of having to paddle out against the waves I could just take a rip current which pulls me out, then swim to the side to get out of it and surf back to shore. Advantage is that rip currents can be visible because the waves don‘t fully break over them (at least that‘s what I learned). Also the way those currents form is that it‘s the water flowing back out to sea through a channel between two sandbanks.
Absolutelly. The rip tides come from normal waves that come easily over a small ridge but mostly escape through a weaker spot that rarely wider than a dozen meters.
Trying to stay in is is by farthe worst idea, but always remember everyone lose 90% of their intelligence in immediate danger situation. Best case is that you already know what to do, seconfd best option is to force yourself to spend 1s looking around.
That's the way to go, I've been told that since birth in a family of ocean kayakers
I was taught this from the moment I first stepped on a beach when I was a toddler. People should REALLY know this stuff, very useful.
Yeah, I learned that from watching Bondi Rescue
Same here, been going to the beach since I was born. The idea is that eventually the riptide should help you, and hopefully let go near enough shore. Floating and treading water are also vital skills.
With the very last case, I have absolutely no doubt that the underwater rescue breaths bought him the time he needed. That was an extremely freaking smart thing to do.
Wrong. The kid's lungs were already full of water. he "underwater rescue breaths" did f-all. 7.5 min of O2 deprivation.....kid's a vegetable.
@@ToxicTotorohe was already back in school shortly after according to a quick google search. so not a vegetable
@@ToxicTotorohow do you know that he had water in his lungs? And your wording.. ‘full of water‘. If his lungs were full of water he’d be long dead considering this child was under water for almost eight minutes with no oxygen and bad cpr. If the boy held his breath and the man giving him mouth to mouth oxygen I can see why it still turned out well.
As a certified pool operator, they should’ve immediately turned off the pumps and motors for that lazy River much faster than that. The way the drains work is the pump takes some water through pipes and into a pump room where it gets filtered and treated and then the new water automatically goes back into the pool. But when you turn the pump off it immediately releases the strong suction since it’s not sucking water anymore. So when the child got stuck the pool operator on duty should’ve immediately activated their EAP and turned the pump off. This would’ve saved them more time. That child is so lucky they did not lose their life because in extreme situations those drains would’ve torn him apart because of the strong suction.
@@emilypage5872 that's what I was thinking. It took them THAT long?! I know there's no lifeguards on duty, but how is it that no one was able to turn off the pumps for that long? That's crazy. As soon as there were other people involved, that should have been the first thing.
The story about the sunburned children actually made me cry. I've been sunburned many times and I know how painful even a mild sunburn is. To be burned that badly...I can't even imagine how much that must hurt.
That one had me furious honestly. Daycare doesn't have enough sunblock and doesn't want to enforce the kids wearing protective clothing, and it results in this.
@@nobione_kenobi2114That was crazy to me. "They didn't want to wear their shirts." Uh so what? They're kids, make them put their clothes back on.
I can't either, and I've had a few sunburns in my life. But thankfully never had ones that bad. I've spent hours in the sun without sun cream and didn't get blisters. Burns yes, but not blisters, and that's with the Australian sun. Makes me wonder just how negligent the kindergarten was.
@@thedeviouspandaAye, if you don't put your shirt on, you're waiting in the lobby.
In Australia kids can’t make that choice. No skin protection? Then you do not go out.
Doctor Mike's advice on the currents is very important. I'm a professional survival swim instructor for children and babies and the number one thing we teach kids is how to calmly float on their back, and we work over a period of months to make sure that kids can hold their floats while splashing water all around them vigorously to ensure they survive this kind of scenario.
I've never been able to float on my float 😭
Unfortunately said advice won't work for everyone.
Most people yes, but then you've got the skinny and/or muscular guys who literally do not have enough fat to float no matter how perfect their form is.
@robo7643 Same, and I even use the correct form.
Unfortunately, I don't have enough fat to float. On anything less than full lungs, my body's got negative buoyancy. And I kind of need to breathe.
@@bolbyballinger Too skinny to float well; can confirm.
@@bolbyballingertry bending your knees at a 90 degree angle so your shins and feet dangle below you, and lift your arms above your head in line with the rest of your body. So your body is straight from your hands down to your to your knees. Relax completely the whole time. If that doesn’t work then yes, there is no hope of floating for you lol
That last one is valid proof that pools need emergency pump shut-off buttons similar to the buttons at gas pumps. Had there been one in an easy to spot location, he probably would not have been underwater for so long.
Fun fact. Water rides at most theme parks have a reservoir and are higher than said reservoir. The purpose of the reservoir is to act as an emergency run off in the event of an emergency. If an employee pulls the E-Stop, all water pumps stop. Without the pumps to keep the water levels up on the ride, all of the water drains into the reservoir. This would allow for any guests that get stuck underwater to have a chance to survive.
The boys shouldn't have been able to remove that grate in the first place. It should have been fixed correctly. And may be there even was an emergency pump shutnoff and no on thought to use it before 7:30.
@@johanneshalberstadt3663 maybe teach you kid do not mess in thing you dont understand
I'm still trying to figure out why the Hotel didn't shut off the pump along time ago...
@@joester4life No life gaurd, so how long did it take to inform them? Then you have to find someone who has the keys and knows what to do.
That's... a really good idea and i'm surprised that it hasn't been implemented.
I’m an electrical engineer that deals a lot with marinas and boatyards. Never swim in or near a marina…. Ever! There are required safeguards for new marinas, but these do not guarantee against electric shock drowning. Also, older marinas are not required to update to the newer electrical codes until they replace the docks.
7:00 Actually I think that mom was doing just fine letting her baby attempt to float like that. There's two adults supervising her, she's taking lessons and all in all, she seems to be doing just fine. Also that story of her losing her son to drowning is heartbreaking and really shows why everyone should learn the basics of swimming.
You're correct. The news outlet made it dramatic for no reason. They showed the clip of her showcasing what she learned
12:56, they run out of sunscreen and NO ONE thought “hey, we have no way of properly protecting these children from the sun anymore, we should head back to the daycare!”
The level of neglect to allow this to happen …
I hope the parent speaks to an injury lawyer immediately. The daycare needs to be sued for damages and future medical complications
It was the add on of "...and they didn't want to wear their shirts..." that got me. How about they don't have a choice?? Sure we want kids to be free to have fun but not at the expense of their health and safety 🤦🏾♀️
Also, if kids didn't want to wear shirts, just don't let them out :D
Or you know drive to the nearest store that sells some and buy a bottle or two....
So crazy, Zach (the man who lost his leg due to flesh-eating bacteria in Fort Myers) is my mom's handyman. He's a very nice, hard-working guy, and it's a shame what happened to him- to my knowledge he's still waiting on a settlement from the city. Didn't think I'd randomly run into someone I know on a Dr. Mike video today! 😅
Cases like his have become more common in Florida waters these days. Something about rising sea temperatures being more hospitable to those sorts of bacteria & toxic algae blooms. I'm sorry to hear he went through this and hope he's been adapting/recovering well!
Yeah, Florida’s ecological situation has been on rapid decline for decades now. It blows my mind that a state whose entire economy runs on tourism would continue to actively destroy/ fail to protect its own greatest asset- beautiful beaches and plant/animal diversity 😢
Was it not Vibrio?
@@marylane6835 I believe so- a global rise in vibrio infections has been linked with climate change due rise in water temps and changing ocean patterns.
Poor guy. I hope he’s doing well, considering everything. I’ve seen people I know like that too. It’s much different when it’s on a body cam. 😅
As a licensed pilot, the recommended waiting times to prevent DCS are 12 hours after diving, which does not require a controlled ascent, and 24 hours if the diving does require a controlled ascent. This is for altitudes in flight up to 8000 ft. For any commercial airline, you want to wait 24 hours after the dive, with or without a controlled ascent.
I don't plan on ever going SCUBA diving, but that's super useful info to have - thanks for sharing it so people who do go SCUBA diving have it at hand!
The 12hour rule is taught at all entry level scuba courses.
12 hour for a single dive. 24 for multiple dives.
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That's like every week or something
Every Wednesday and Sunday!@@JacCollins-l2r
As a PICU nurse, I love love LOVE infant swimming lessons! Of course you shouldn’t have your child near water unsupervised, but accidents happen and the child being able to survive for a few minutes can save their lifes. I think every parent with a pool or a garden pond should look into infant swimming lessons.
I'm a Shark Lawyer, and my clients have informed me that 1:12 was a tad bit unnecessary profiling, especially coming from a doctor. They're not mad, they're sad and disappointed lmao
@@coinarcherI think it's a joke
LMAO!!!!!
Let's say you and I go toe-to-toe on shark law and see who comes out the victor.
Ah, so nice to see professional courtesy in practice! 🦈🦈
Shark Lawyer sounds like a cartoon
6:29 As somone who has a disability and has been swimming there whole life in my opinion this is great that this mother is teaching her daughter to swim at such a younge age it is such an important skill to know
that last one has me gasping for air myself. children are so curious, what a terrifying incident. so glad he's okay, and that the first guy thought to give him air like that
As someone that has has multiple major sunburns as a child living in New Zealand, I am happy people have realized the dangers involved. When you can pull a sheet of skin off you that is the same size as the torso it came off, maybe hospitalization is a better option than covering your child in as much aloe vera juice as you can get out of the plant without killing it.
I contracted necrotising fasciitis back in August 2022, but not from water. I believe it was from contracting Strep A that turned invasive. My whole right leg swelled up, turned red and got massive blisters all over. I had emergency surgery on my leg and was in hospital five and a half weeks, then it took from October 2022 until March 2024 for the surgical wounds to fully heal (I also caught Covid while in hospital). I have to wear compression stockings for the rest of my life, but I have my leg and my life, which I am so, so grateful for. The more I hear about about necrotising fasciitis, the more I realise just how lucky and fortunate I am (I'm from the UK).
Damn! Wow, that sounds like an extremely painful series of events! It's great to know that you've survived and managed to get back to a good life!
@@StarPlatinum3000 It was very painful, but it was more the psychological side to the events that hurt the most. I'm on the autism spectrum and I'd never been away from home for such a long length of time before and I was terrified every single day. Plus, because the doctors didn't know what I had for the first few weeks, I was kept in isolation for that time and it was hell. The only physical pain I had was when the dressings on my leg had to be changed. I did get therapy to help me deal with what happened, but I'm still nervous around hospitals and whenever I get a sore throat.
@@haloson5852 that's understandable that it still makes you nervous, I am so sorry that you went through all of that
You are a survivor 🙏😔 respect
I got it in my shoulder Aug 23 and with wound vac it healed in Feb 24. Lost part of clavicle.
4:15 I'm a swim instructor/life gaurd for kids. I felt so happy hearing him mention that it's safest to be on your back.
That is my "chest compression"
6:31 I was so confused why people were mad. Like that baby rolled over amazingly. She was floating face stayed above water. It was instant as well. I'd get the concern if she splashed around a bit before rolling. But even the baby stayed calm.
I used to teach baby swimming classes at the YMCA! It's a lot of fun and any parent who has the resources to do so should. The babies also have a blast and it's great social time for parents. Once the babies learn how to float, they are sat up on the edge of the pool at the end of class and encouraged to belly flop into the water towards their parents. Most of the babies think it's really fun and want to do it multiple times.
Accidents happen. Better your baby falls into a pool under supervision and learning how to save themselves than them falling into the pool during a drunken family reunion.
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2:51 Common misconception about snakes! They will not go after humans at all unless absolutely necessary (Like on the brink of death starvation) Because we are simply too big for them to see any worth in going after us.
Those snakes eat deer way larger than those girls.
There are so many cases of reticulated pythons eating both children + adults. Humans are very much viable prey to a large python.
Close, but not quite. They don't go after humans because we're predators to them. It would be like a wolf hunting grizzly bears for food.
Snakes are naturally terrified of humans. Unless those girls were covered in the scent of something the python does eat (snakes are dumb, this is enough to make them think you're a different creature sometimes), and they don't threaten the python, they're gonna be perfectly fine.
People think snakes are these cunning, deceitful monsters but in reality, they're socially anxious spaghetti that have no thoughts in their head.
@@coatstar6293to be fair, there is a python species known to prey on humans (reticulated python).
Although this species HAS eaten people we certainly are not seen as a prey source to them. Its an incredibly rare case that's exaggerated to make people fear snakes more. We certainly aren't a prey source to them since snakes don't even like eating humans because we're oddly shaped and aren't easily swallowed.
Im not saying it hasn't happened, because it has, BUT to say "Known to prey on humans" unnecessarily exaggerates it and makes them seem a lot more dangerous than they are. (Although this animal should still be approached with caution, like any other unfamiliar animal)
I love how Dr. Mike uploads around lunch time. Perfect video to watch while chilling out between work
I'm making cinnamon toast while watching this👍
I'm eating chipotle while watching this lol
Dinner time for me usually 😅
But its 18.
@@Blazed_Nitroye😅
Dr Mike and team, thank you for ALWAYS uploading videos with closed captions! they help so much for people like me whose first language isn't English
Your writing is spectacular! Better than most 20 year old native English speakers
Babyswimming is a common thing to do during maternity leave in Denmark. It's good for the child's physical development, and it's just a fun way for parent and child to interact. Of course you don't let go of the child for even a second, and it takes place in specially heated water to make sure the babies don't get cold. It results in many children being able to swim from a very early age.
I was diving at 30 feet in Key West. Three days straight four dives a day. Our dive master told us to get out of the water 20 minutes into our last dive. Thankfully, he had calculated our decompression times. Silly of me not to do it. Thanks, Mike!
There should be no reason to abort after just 20 minutes.
(unless you ran out of oxygen, or there were dangers like currents or sharks, at least - or running out of daylight if you're not certified for night dives, or your boat needing to return to harbor, etc)
Doing so many dives in such short succession, is not a decompression risk (especially if you only go to 30 ft max).
You'd just need a lot more time waiting at 15-10 feet before completely concluding the dive (safety stop).
Do you remember any other details?
Your story makes me wanna refresh my PADI Advanced cuz it shouldn't have been needed 😅🤔
Why was your dive computer not calculating that? Or were you not Open Water Diver certified and just on a 4-day pass from an afternoon lesson kinda thing?
Why do I enjoy watching the injury ones 😭
Guess it’s interesting
@@Ezzx14yep
Yea its interesting
REAL 😭
SAME
This video has brought me to tears early. This is so absolutely devastating, ESPECIALLY the children! Oh Lord Jesus 🙏
4:03 I live at the beach, the reason rip currents are “deadly” is because people fight the current. They get exhausted and end up drowning, we actually had a 13 year old drown due to this yesterday. Don’t fight the current, swim to the side and get out of the current that way
This.
The natural instinct is to fight against it and get to shore, but moving diagonally or perpendicular to the current is the only way you're getting out on your own.
@@redkingrauri3769 correct
I wish my brother knew that. He was floating on his back, but then he got pulled under.
@@jodil1209 rip currents don’t pull people under, it must have been smth else
In Florida, or at my school at least, it's taught to students in elementary school to always swim parallel, and is brought up multiple times throughout school about beach safety. I've been caught in rip currents before but thankfully I've been able to get myself back without the help of any life guards. Heck I didn't even realize I was in a rip current once until I realized my swimming wasn't working so I just stopped and floated on my back for a bit to get my energy back
If you're caught in a rip current you could try to swim parallel to the shore to escape it before you get taken too far out. That said don't exhaust yourself before you're back to shore
1:14 I study sharks as a hobby and she got SO lucky it went for her arm and not a more vital spot which sharks aim for, sharks usually bite once and realize their mistake but one bite can still be catastrophic in the wrong spot
1:40 Water is what we call an incompressible fluid, meaning it can't really be squeezed together like gases can. It'll begin to heat up and possibly cavitate, but it doesn't like being squeezed.
So if it doesn't have time to move out of your way, it acts like a solid. That's why high dives, above 20 feet or so, can be fatal. If you hit wrong, you can shatter ribs, collapse lungs, and be knocked unconscious to drown.
PLEASE DO TENNIS INJURIES!!! I’VE BEEN ASKING FOR SO LONG
YESSSS
Yes please
Yeessss
A lotta ball boys/girls along the back wall taking balls to the face. The real tennis injuries is the long term damage to the joints. Show somebody recovering from rotator cuff surgery or tennis elbow. "Here's 72 year old Margaret who has just had her second knee done. She has Fernanda in at the moment doing the cleaning so she can focus on her elastic band PT."
Its just gonna be a bunch of rotator cuff and elbow tendon injuries
with regards to the burmese python, at work (reptile rescue & education) we consider them safe for children to handle if two experience adults are present & depending on the size of the child, one of the adults will support the weight of the snake. we don’t even handle them unless there are two adults present (including the handler). chances are it will be completely fine, and our burm is a right sweetie, but it is always possible that they get spooked especially around unpredictable children or children that don’t know how to properly interact with animals. putting them in a stressful environment like an enclosed pool with no easy exit in the video makes them more likely to act defensively, but if there are adults there then they would likely be able to get the snake off the kid
The thing with sharks is that biting is one way they test to see if something is food. We aren't food so they usually then just let go. But that bite can be devastating to us cuz we're so soft and squishy.
Yep. Sharks are basically human two-year-olds; they understand the world by putting things in their mouths.
I'm offended that a shark wouldn't consider me food. I'm very tender and well-marbled.
@@SeuOu Too bony perhaps?
Doctor Mike: that's really dangerous
Also Doctor Mike: here's a video of me doing it.
0:16 SHARKS- 💀
RIGHT!!!
I'm really frustrated with the number of accidents involving alcohol and carelessness 😭 I can't imagine. I'm so glad everyone came out alive
For that last video, it just goes to show how dangerous Delta-P situations can be. There's a classic PSA video about this on UA-cam that shows just how horrific they are.
"When it's got ya, it's got ya."
@EvanBear My personal favorite is, "Water is deceptively heavy."
@@hyperboles6563 1kg per liter, in fact. So when you go down to depth, you need to think about how many liters of water are stacked over you. (A liter is a 10cm x 10cm x 10cm cube of volume.) For reference, an average woman is around 78kg, and an average man around 84kg.
4:20 On Bondi Rescue they said there's a riptide taking you out you should swim parallel to the shore until you find a current that pulls you in.
One of my favorites is at my local swimming emporium, watching them teach little babies how to swim is much fun to observe.
I was thinking about the baby learning how to swim when a few videos later the little boy fell into the pool. Thankfully his dad was right there but if he wasn’t it could have saved his life if he was taught how to swim.
I was wondering if baby swim lessons weren't a thing in the states. Here in Finland they're quite common. If you take the baby to water early enough they retain the reflex from the womb to hold their breath. And of course the parents are always right there in the water with them to make sure they're safe
@@katrivanhatalo2207my neices learned how to swim as babies. They live in usa, but their mom is czech.
@@katrivanhatalo2207 It’s not that common but I think it is getting more popular. The more people see it on social media the more it will get out there though!
@@katrivanhatalo2207 In Florida they definitely are. There's water EVERYWHERE, from pools to ponds, rivers, lakes, daily summer rainfall creating road flooding due to drainage issues, not to mention hurricanes and their flood events from storm surge or an overabundance of prolonged rainfall.
It isn't just for having fun. It can literally save the lives of small children in emergency situations.
4:49 do the rescue chain only if you are a qualified rescuer and you are trained for this, because as dr Mike said, more people can be lost and it will take you more time
(Btw I literally learned to do the rescue chain in the life savor course today and I was a lil taken aback by his statement lol)
All the voice overs BEING! SO! DRAMATIC!
The clip of the guy jumping off the ship reminded me of a story my dad told me when he was in the Navy. He jumped off the ship as a dare and then got in trouble because despite being unharmed, they thought a man went overboard and when they called for the swim and rescue.........my dad was the swim and rescue.
I’m TERRIFIED of open water.. try convincing me there isn’t a shark in your pool.. it won’t work 😂
There is *not* a shark in the pool, you're crazy. It's completely safe
@@greenkitty1 Except Bruce, but he don't bother nobody.
@@redkingrauri3769 yeah that's why I didn't feel the need to mention him. He's chill
@@greenkitty1 and that baby shark. But that's okay, he just swims away. He's chill like that.
Phobias aren't allways rational. @@greenkitty1
Dr. Mike shouting at someone to jump into a brawl with violent sharks wasn't on my bingo card for 2024, but I'll be sure to have it next year!
This video was very informative, since I will be going on cruise very soon 🚢.
- No getting drunk and jumping off the ship
-No giving and flying
-Bring sun block
-Be on the look out for sharks 👌
If you’re drinking, stay out of the water.
Fun Fact: Australia is the only country where a prime minister went for a swim and just never returnec
thats not fun
@@neonilist Yes it is
They named a pool after him
@@thememedream5788That's savage. 😂
LOL
This is true tho, Harold Holt did disappear while swimming and we still don’t know what happened
Reptile nerd here. I would worry about the snek stressing out in the water, not knowing what’s going on or where it is, not being acclimated to the outdoor weather or the cool pool water, and not having good gripping surfaces and instinctively clinging to the nearest climbable thing it can find (nearby human).
i learned so much from dr.mike like he's the best medical teacher you could ever have!
hello doctor mike!
i have been watching your channel for 3+ years and as a teenager you have taught me so much. you even made me become the person i am today. i am more interested than ever in medicine, and the thought of it makes me really happy. words cant put into how much i wanna thank you for everything. you have amazing humor and a great personality, theres never a dull moment with you around. you have truly changed the world for the best. i never got to say how much i appreciate you since i always forget to because of your amazing videos. i hope you continue being awesome, good luck on your journey!
love from greece❤
Hey dr Mike I didn’t see a video for multiple sclerosis.
I found out that I have it a month ago and I like the way you explain everything.
Thank you for explaining illnesses not in “doctor words”
3:22 And this is why women live longer than men
Nah we just take risk , we want to live life to the fullest, and have no regrets at the end of our life
That is incredibly sexist, can u js say something nicer
yesterday i was swimming in some river rapids in my town, and a 4 year old kid got swept in by the jetty. I got to him within maybe 10 seconds, but he went under so silently and his father was several meters downstream and couldn’t hear us screaming for him. Kid was crying the second his face hit the air, so i was just glad i didn’t have to remember my CPR training from a decade ago. Life jackets are so important. i’m still pretty shaken up by it, actually. the family didn’t speak english so i couldn’t talk to them. i just went home.
9:14 NOW I NEVER WANT TO GO INTO ANY POOL EVER AGAIN! 😢😢😭😭😭
the best way to see rip currents (or at least what I've been told by lifeguards) is to see where waves form crossing patterns and if they are breaking at weird, usually diagonal, angles. There can also be water discoloration, but imo that's much harder to spot.
"WHY ARE YOU TAKING PICTURES, DIVE IN AND HELP HERRRRRRR💀💀" 0:30
No theres no her
He said “WHY IS HE TAKING PHOTOS? DIVE IN AND HELP!” Are u deaf 😭
1:07 Weird because those sharks are usually docile, and not like, aggressive. 2:23 Ahhh, I always hate looking at bruises like these ones.
10:30 When you mix pool chlorine and water it causes a exothermic reaction, which can result it something resembling a explosion. Never mix small amounts of water with large amounts of chlorine (especially powder) because the water will heat up extremely quickly
im a swimmer, one time off the blocks, i dove onto my friend as he was coming in. we werent hurt other than a couple of scratches but it was still scary
3:06 I would be scared getting sucked into the propellers of the Ship rather than getting eaten by sharks.
The discipline of Doctor Mike of uploading everyday on Wednesday and Sunday is commendable❤
@Idontknow-br6me Tbf, a doctor that's also on UA-cam usually isn't the most consistent creator out there. I can only name a few off the top of my head of hundreds, outside of shorts creators anyway (which, because of how short form content is, it feels more harmful than helpful to use shorts exclusively, but that's a whole other thing). So Dr. Mike being this consistent, having moderate length videos, and having proper editing on top of being a full time doctor is something noteworthy in my eyes. Most people just choose one career, ya know? He has two.
@@persephonehades7547 That is so true my friend....Thanks for backing me
@Idontknow-br6me still, the youtubers with 12 million must not be consistent like Mike....Mike deserves more than what he has
@@persephonehades7547 That is so true
@Idontknow-br6menot evryone are so consistent as he is. Mike deserves way more than what he has
Literally one of the things that is stressed the most when learning how to scuba dive through reputable dive schools, is that you absolutely cannot - under no circumstances - fly for a recommended time of 36-48 hours after diving, and the deeper you dive, the longer that time is. When I was getting my license, it was stressed to me so many times that even when underwater doing a dive my dive instructor and dive master quizzed me on it (using dive hand signals and extra ones he taught us before diving). I went on a scuba diving holiday, and our flight home was on the Monday, but the trip planners and the family I went with refused to let us dive after Friday to avoid this issue.
Edit: I know the graphic put up says 12-24 hours, but we were told 36-48 to absolutely ensure without a doubt that this would not happen. The dive school I qualified with does the search and rescue where I live, and the whole crew collectively agreed that they would rather treat a shark bite or drowning than decompression sickness or a burst lung.
gotta love how dr mike keeps things entertaining but educated
What did that boy expect when he opened that tbh?! A HIDING SPOT FOR HIDE AND SEEK?!
He didn't know what to expect, so he did what any inquisitive kid would do; experiment and explore.
I wouldn't expect most kids to know what Delta P is.
@@FancyRPGCanada Better yet, Their parent/guardians should have been watching them, especially considering that there was no lifeguard.
And yet the owners will get sued because of this dumb child
@@kyliehughes8170 it was a lazy river. shouldn't need any supervision for that, especially since they're not alone there. there was another kid who was able to get help for him
8:26 and this here is the reason why the mom at 6:35 is teaching her daughter to save herself in the pool...if the 18 month old was taught, father wouldnt have had to go supermanning over the damn fence lol
Dr. Mike do you know who Bethany Hamilton is? She's a one-arm surf champion. She lost her arm at a young age from a shark while surfing.
Don't remember the kind of shark it was.
There was a movie made about her attack and life called Soul Surfer.
It was a tiger shark
@@Midnight1716unodos ah ok. Thank you very much!
bethany is my idol bro she is a girlboss
oop while watching this i got an advert with her
Hated that movie. They just kill a random shark halfway through it and act like it’s some God blessed vengeance. For Christian producers they didn’t seem to respect gods creation very well :/
With rip tides I was always taught that if you get caught in one don't swim against it swim across it as they're not usually that wide and are caused by a channel under the water you can also use the current to hour benefit it's like if you get caught in a river swim with but across the current will eventually bring you to a river bank where you can climb out
Oh my gosh the pool shock one, new fear unlocked.
Why do I enjoy his reactions to the injuries? 😭
Dr mike is my favorite, and I love when he drops new video.
Tops to the person that put captions in all of the videos of Dr Mike
baby swimming lessons are super common in sweden. all my siblings did it and most of my friends as well.
Aren't water births popular there too?
I love Dr. Mikes channel and look forward to every new video ❤. But these injurie videos give my health anxiety so many new scenarios to worry about 😅
My swim coach tells us that if were in a race and we start getting lightheaded to grab the lane lines because someone will almost immediately try to help you. He also told us if we feel light headed before a race we are not swimming it because he doesn't want us to faint and drown. And if we can't breathe even with all the breaths we get to hold onto the lane line. He tells our parents that swimming can be fun but the water is the worst enemy. He does a good job teaching us how to do chest compressions. And when we time the younger kids meets he tells us to keep watch on the swimmer because theyre still young and don't understand how to get the water out and keep swimming.
1:33 They let us middle schoolers jump off a high diving board . The worst part off it was when you hit the water and your so far down in the pool and you have to swim back up before you run out of air.
When it comes to the snake, realistically she was in very little danger. Snakes are very predictable in terms of their body language, and the snake is very relaxed and just sniffing. It is important to remember that they are still wild animals and it only takes one wrong move for something to go wrong. For this reason, experienced handlers of large snakes will advise anyone to not handle snakes over 6ft in length with no one else present. But as the girl was supervised and the snake was relaxed it was relatively safe.
Out of curiosity I need to ask, is there actually anything a bystander can actually do if a boa starts constricting someone? Can you get one to stop?
@@judyb4155 Pour vodka on it.
@@judyb4155 Definitely not alone, and it can be very easy to lose consciousness if they get around your neck and start constricting. In terms of getting it off, it depends on the size of the snake. If it's smaller someone else may be able to get it off. If it's large like in the video it's best to have multiple try, but unfortunately sometimes the best course of action is just to kill the snake. Although Im not 100% sure about that.
@@judyb4155 Grab the tail and unwind it like a scarf. That's what my teachers in vet school said.
Thanks for the answers.
I live in the UK where I am, happily, never likely to need to know but I have always wondered.
Like, I’ve heard you should run in a zig zag to escape an alligator chasing you and there’s something about punching sharks on the nose but this is the first advice I’ve had on boa constrictors.
Mike please do a audio book or a sleepy time audio, your smooth doctor voice puts me to sleep 😊
3:00 I've held snakes before. Nothing that big, but I have held many garter snakes, racers, and, once, a copperhead that a park ranger had. It was not defanged but was used to humans and very docile.
I think they're very interesting. Humans get spooked because snakes are noodles that move, but most aren't really any more dangerous than a cat or dog, just much less used to humans. Constrictors constrict out of habit but aren't usually trying to eat humans; we're too big and they only eat like twice a month.
yeah “most” is the problem, i’m sure if specific breeds of cats/dogs were poisonous humans wouldn’t approach either 😭 most people aren’t gonna know which are dangerous and which aren’t, it’s just not worth the risk
@@jolovesyou The venomous ones have triangular, as opposed to round, heads, except for the ones that don't.
Nonvenomous snakes also have rounded, as opposed to elliptical, pupils, except for the ones that mimic venomous snakes and don't.
They also have different tail vents, so just pick them up and check.
@@richeybaumann1755 well no i know all of that, but that’s like telling someone to go pick up a shark because most of them are actually harmless, they can still bite you, poisonous or not, and believe it or not it’s worse than a dog/cat… if i got bitten i don’t think my first instinct would be to chase down the snake and pick it up, it’s awesome if you can tell but don’t make it sound like people are stupid if they don’t, considering you’ve said yourself you have experience doing so. plus i don’t think anyone thinks snakes try to eat us lmao, just bite out of defense
Can i just say , i used to do polar bears quite often (jumping in the water , the 1st of January , in Canada) and even with knowing hoe it feels , when i fell in the water from a fishing boat (in may, in the Atlantic) , it still feels like a punch in the head every time!
“Did they think he was just good” I lost it immediately my god 😂
6:27 *baby being put into a pool to learn to swim with supervison* BABY LEFT TO FEND FOR ITSELF AFTER BEING LURED INTO A POOL BY A BRIGHTLY COLOURED SANDAL ‼️‼️ 😂
That was ridiculous. I'm not from the anglosphere and here its completely normal. No one would've bat an eye.
9:28 new fear unlocked: *going into a pool* 😭😭😭😭💀💀💀💀
10:20 I have had chemical burn as a swimmer a few times, it usually affects the chest and lung aria. Chlorine needs to react with a liquid to create heat and that is most of the time in your lungs. It takes a lot normally to have this reaction and will result in you needing to take a few days away from the pool to heal. Btw something not known by all is if your pool does not have enough air flow you can crest a thin layer of chlorine gas on top of the pool which will irritate your lungs when breathed in.
8:34 Great job dad.
There's a starman waiting in the sky!!!
😂😂@@Cici1234-j5p
Sharks are ocean puppies that discover with their teeth instead of their noses.
Babies have a natural survival instinct to now drown, meaning they will roll over on their back if they fall in water. It’s actually really common in nordic countries to have the same kind of swimming class for babies, and it’s good for your baby to rehearse
Heck of a typo you have in here.
If my nonexistent child slipped away and fell into that pool, there would be either a cartoon hole in the fence shaped like my legs or shredded flesh from my shins…because there is no way in hell I’m wasting ANY time running around that fence.
Did you notice the woman in the spa that just stood there? Sheesh
@@brenda5511 I don’t see the woman, but I do see the dude who was standing by the door and didn’t hear the pitter patter of baby feet…😒 I don’t care if that’s not my kid. That fence is toast and all those adults are getting a heated lecture on safety.
I live in RI, on the beach…when you’re caught in a rip current (riptide) you’re to swim parallel with the shore until you no longer feel the rip, then swim back to shore
For a rip current you just swim parallel to the shore line for rip currents going out to sea. That way you can swim out of one. Once you are out of the rip current you can let the ocean bring you back to shore easier swimming towards the beach. If the rip current is going down the shore line, just swim back to shore.
Omg why do i love watching the injury videos😭😭😭 Can we also just appreciate how he takes time to upload videos for us?? Love your videos!!! Take care and stay safe!❤️❤️❤️
2:18 that ‘OOOOOHHHHHHH’ is exactly what I said but more high pitched
I did an EUAGHHHHH