Barbara Dreaver

And I thought, oh, gosh.

So I started running the way she had come from.

And then I was overtaken by the two guys who were doing the towels at the pool, two local guys running.

They pounded past me and they flew over this jetty.

They just ran down this jetty, dived across about two boats.

It was incredible.

And swam out to sea.

And I watched them bringing this man back.

And they would bring him to the jetty and I was like, no!

no, no, no, no, go to the beach, go to the beach.

Because if he'd come to the, they would never have got him up the duty, right?

So I said, take him to the, and then I ran down to the beach and they pulled him up.

They didn't know how to do CPR.

It was a Sunday.

And so no one was, you know, so I started doing CPR because we'd been taught through TVNZ

And then Fitzy came running up and I said, you do the heart, you know, the pumping of the heart and I will do the breathing.

And it was horrible because you can hear the water, it's like a waterfall inside you.

And it was frothing and I tasted him for about a year.

wow yeah it's awful but then fitzy felt this he goes it was like we worked on him for ages like he it's a miracle he a miracle because he he was out there drowned for ages he wasn't breathing for minutes and minutes well you know at least 12 minutes right anyway we felt this buff and it was his heart coming into the hand and fitzy goes i've got him

I was like, whoa.