How Girls Can Help Their Country

by Juliette Gordon Low; Agnes Baden-Powell; Baron Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell

There are four practical methods of bringing a drowning person to land.

Fig. 1

1. If quiet, turn him on his back, and grip him by the head so that the palms of the hands cover the ears, and swim on the back. Keep his face above water (Fig. 1).

Fig. 2

2. In case of struggling, turn him on his back. Then grip his arms just above the elbows and raise them until they are at right angles to his body, and swim on the back (Fig. 2).

Fig. 3

3. If the arms are difficult to grasp, push your arms under those of the subject, bend them upwards, and place your hands, with the fingers separated, flat on his chest, the thumbs resting on his shoulder joints. Swim on the back (Fig. 3).