[xupybd]

Advice to anyone that gets in this situation.

Stop and think. Have a plan before you jump in.

You need a way to help people float and to pull them in.

Do not let a drowning person grab you they may kill you.

If I had stopped to think I would have tied our two dog leads together and thrown them in. I could have pulled them in quickly. They were only 3 or 4 meters from the shore.

Another option would have been to link arms with the strangers there and pull them out together.

[Koshkin]

An incredibly sad story I heard a few years back, when a dog could not get out of the water and seemed to have started drowning, so a boy jumped in to help the dog but then also started drowning, and so his father went in trying to rescue him. Both drowned; the dog somehow managed to get out of the water on its own…