Thanks to Tony Vera for the find and the great tip. This shows both sides, people who think it is a joke and fun to jump off the pier, and what happens when it all goes wrong.
VENICE, Calif. An 18-year-old man was rescued by Los Angeles County lifeguards and treated for hypothermia after jump off Venice pier “to see what it be like,” according to authorities.
Two lifeguards wearing wetsuits lifeguards rescued the youth around 11 on Tuesday. He was clinging to a pylon contained by the ocean’s chilly waters when he was found, said Los Angeles County Life Guard Capt. Terry Hearst.
According to Hearst, the man be about 150 to 200 yard from shore. Authorities are not sure how long he had be in the river, but it was long plenty for him to have become hypothermic.
Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics perform various warm measures, then took the man to Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital at 11:49 p.m, said department spokesman Brian Humphrey. The man is programmed in generous condition.
Hearst said the authorities are still unsure of why the man — fully clothed — jumped into the hose down off the pier at the ruin of Washington Boulevard. He told rescuers that he was not suicidal or beneath the influence of alcohol or drugs.
After the jump be reporte, two lifeguard swift response boats and more than 20 ground-based rescuers — including lifeguards and firefighters — searched for the man.
The Fire Department be prepared to lower rescuers into the water, but, base on the man’s location, a water-based rescue was deem preferable, Humphrey said.
Humphrey said that the man “was shivering so badly that it be difficult from him to speak” once he was brought on territory. “His jaw be quivering so much, it was difficult to grasp him.”
But the man did manage to carry out the words, “to see what it was close to,” when asked why he had jump, Humphrey said.
According to Hearst, county lifeguards have rescued nearly a dozen pier jumpers this year.
“We get hold of these all the time,” said Hearst, who estimated that in the region of half of the jumper wound up being underneath the influence while the other half be attempting suicide.
The LAPD was summoned to the scene, but Pacific Station officer said the incident was not underneath investigation.
The same thing happen in Santa Monica. That river is COLD year round. People don’t realize how long of a swim it is.
So, do the right thing, and DON’T.
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