https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14230841/boy-floating-inside-bubble-middle-sea.html
Moment boy, 8, is found floating inside a bubble in the middle of the sea
By ADRY TORRES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 22:56 EST, 27 December 2024 | Updated: 00:08 EST, 28 December 2024
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This is the moment a boy was found inside a bubble adrift in a Brazilian sea.
Video footage showed a person on a boat strapping a rope around the bubble and dragging it to the shore at Lázaro Beach in Ubatuba, São Paulo, where the child, who is around eight years old, was reunited with his parents.
Rafael do Prado told Metropoles news outlet that the child was in the bubble playing in the beach when its cable snapped and got dragged further out to sea.
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The fire department official added that the bubble the boy was found in provides ‘a false sense of security.’
‘For every three deaths at sea, a drowning process begins with floating objects,’ Magalhães said.
‘Whether it’s a surfboard, an inflatable mattress, or these buoys, floating objects at sea are not safe.’
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Hopefully this story makes an impression on all the beach authorities around the world.
While I’m not a big fan of beaches in general, I have seen children of all ages on inflatable toys in the surf by themselves. (Knowing how quick children can get into trouble, I’m never more than an arm’s length away from any that I’m responsible for. Hate to lose anyone’s.)
Bubbles are for pools. Elsewhere at risk of tragedy,
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