--- title: Swimming: Lifeguard's Reactions Appear to Save Child From Drowning description: Video has emerged of what seems to be a lifeguard whose extremely fast reactions save a child from drowning in a crowded swimming pool. canonical: https://time.com/3927837/lifeguard-rescue-drowning-child-reactions-swimming-wave-pool/ author: Helen Regan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-19T04:23:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:21:15.779Z og:title: Can You Spot the Drowning Child in this Pool? og:description: The lifeguard appears to and pulls off a lightning quick rescue og:url: https://time.com/3927837/lifeguard-rescue-drowning-child-reactions-swimming-wave-pool/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Can You Spot the Drowning Child in this Pool? twitter:description: The lifeguard appears to and pulls off a lightning quick rescue twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # If You Had Only Seconds to Spot a Drowning Child, Could You Do It? by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Jun 19, 2015 4:23 AM UTC by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Jun 19, 2015 4:23 AM UTC Video has emerged on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sFuULOY5ik) of what appears to be a lifeguard whose extremely fast reactions save a child from drowning in a crowded swimming pool. The footage, posted by user [Lifeguard Rescue](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnERyC7dwJwTvEyzYz6uxHw), apparently shows a wavepool packed full of people, many on rubber rings. Ten seconds into the video, a child slips off his ring and looks to be struggling in the water, with his head bobbing under the waves. Can you spot him? Nobody else appears to either—except a lifeguard, who immediately blows her whistle and dives in to save him. TIME has not been able to verify where or when the footage was filmed, but it has been viewed more than 600,000 times since it was posted on Wednesday. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3927837/lifeguard-rescue-drowning-child-reactions-swimming-wave-pool/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3927837/lifeguard-rescue-drowning-child-reactions-swimming-wave-pool/"},"headline":"If You Had Only Seconds to Spot a Drowning Child, Could You Do It?","datePublished":"2015-06-19T04:23:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:15.779Z","description":"This lifeguard does","url":"https://time.com/3927837/lifeguard-rescue-drowning-child-reactions-swimming-wave-pool/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","video","rescue","child","apester"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3927837/lifeguard-rescue-drowning-child-reactions-swimming-wave-pool/","name":"If You Had Only Seconds to Spot a Drowning Child, Could You Do It?"}}]}] ```