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TAMARA LOISELLE DECIDIÓ QUE TENÍA QUE ENTRAR EN EL AGUA Y JUGARSE LA VIDA POR SALVARLES
Una triatleta profesional canadiense salva a dos personas de morir ahogadas tras decidir los socorristas no intervenir
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La ex triatleta profesional Tamara Loiselle se ha convertido en una heroína tras salvar a dos personas de morir ahogadas en una playa en Cancún (México).
La triatleta canadiense tomó la decisión de tirarse a un mar muy revuelto en el que ni los propios socorristas quisieron entrar para intentar sacar a los bañistas que se encontraban en problemas.
Tamara asegura que comenzó a escuchar gritos que llegaban desde el agua, pero lejos de la orilla. Nadie se atrevía a tomar la decisión de entrar en el agua, pero la triatleta no se lo pensó dos veces.
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"Los socorristas hablaban entre ellos y ví que no se iban a meter a por las personas que se estaban ahogando”, asegura Tamara. Se tiró al gua con un salvavidas y una cuerdo y luchó contra el mar. “En un momento, yo estaba diciendo, Oh, Dios mío, ¿dónde me he metido? Espero que salga viva porque tengo dos hijos en casa ".
La triatleta se sintió en peligro en un momento debido a la fuerza del agua y durante un minuto no era capaz de moverse. Consiguió moverse y fue capaz de acercarse a los bañistas y que agarraran la cuerda y el salvavidas. Desde la orilla varias personas tiraron fuerte para acercarles. Consiguieron llegar a la orilla y fueron tratados por las asistencias médicas.
“Miré a la mujer que había salvado y estaba aterrada”, afirma Tamara. Al día siguiente recibió un mensaje de Facebook del hombre que salvó. El mensaje decía: "Las palabras no pueden describir mi gratitud”.
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Calgary woman rescues couple from surging Cancun waters
REID SOUTHWICK, CALGARY HERALD
Published on: January 4, 2015Last Updated: January 4, 2015 11:00 PM MST
Calgary triathlon athlete Tamara Loiselle helped rescue a couple drowning in the waves off Cancun on Dec. 29, 2014.
Tamara Loiselle / Calgary Herald
As Tamara Loiselle stood on a Cancun beach looking out into the surging ocean where two stranded swimmers gasped for air, she glanced around at the nervous faces of a dozen or so security guards next to her.
They had all been drawn to the shoreline by screams echoing from the swimmers, who were so distant they looked like nothing more than two specks bobbing on the heaving water.
Loiselle, a triathlon athlete from Calgary who had spent the Christmas holidays in Mexico, could sense the security guards from the nearby condo complex were not willing to take the plunge.
A couple years before, two women in their 20s had drowned near that same stretch of beach. Other swimmers had been rescued earlier that very week.
“The security guards were talking among themselves (in Spanish) and I imagine they were saying, ‘Yeah, it’s not great to send a tourist out there, but what other choice do we have?’ ” Loiselle recalled of that morning on Dec. 29.
“No one else was willing or able to go in, so I offered to go.”
Loiselle is no stranger to the dangers of deep waters. She almost drowned about six years ago after she fell off a boat and didn’t have the strength to pull herself up. She vowed to get back into shape.
The strength she earned over time would save two people.
Armed with a life preserver and a rope secured to a reel on the beach, Loiselle swam beneath the waves, which were coming fast and furious. A big wave knocked the wind out of her.
“At one point, I was like, Oh my God, what did I get myself into? I hope this works out because I have two children at home.”
As she continued to close in on the stranded swimmers, another tense moment came as the rope connecting her to the beach became stuck. For a minute or so, she couldn’t move.
“I was really getting pummelled by the waves.”
Once the jam was cleared, she pressed on and soon came upon a man. He pleaded with her to rescue a woman who was farther out.
“Go to her, go to her,” he said.
Loiselle let him grab onto the life preserver and they both swam out to the woman.
“Just her face was sticking out of the water. She was gasping for air; she was totally exhausted, unable to swim anymore.”
About a minute into the rescue, the men on the beach began towing them back to shore, where they were greeted by paramedics. They grabbed the woman, who couldn’t walk.
“I looked over and the man was totally traumatized. He was in a fetal position on the beach with his hands on his head, his eyes fixed on the ground. I asked him if he was OK. He said he was.”
The next day, she received a Facebook message from the man she saved. The message said: “words cannot describe my gratitude but I’ll try.”
The man wrote that before Loiselle arrived, his girlfriend was about to let go and had said, “I’m sorry, I can’t do this anymore.”
“Ever since this incident, we’re feeling as this is added time, overtime … A gift to be able to live more, to be here some more time.”
Fuente: Calgaryherald
http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/calgary-woman-rescues-couple-from-surging-cancun-waters
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