In the Australian city of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, two fathers sacrificed their lives to save drowning children, according to 9News.
Father of many children Richard Catbagan and his friend Denny Jade Caballa were vacationing with their families on the beach on October 6. The men saw that their children, playing in the shallow water, were carried away by the waves. They immediately jumped into the water and fell into a strong current.
Vacationers Allana and Brock Harris saw drowning in the water and rushed to help. Brock pulled Catbagan, Caballa, and another man out of the water. Then he began giving men cardiopulmonary resuscitation. For some time, Caball’s pulse remained, but the Australian could not be saved. Both friends died on the spot. The third victim survived.
Brock claims that he, too, was almost dragged to the bottom due to the powerful current. However, his fiancée Allana found surfboards and arrived just in time. “I turned and saw that she had prepared a board for me so that I could get to the shore. If it hadn’t been for her, I wouldn’t have scrambled out myself,” he says.
Queensland Police Officer Craig McKenky noted that the two children independently made it to land. Kaball’s nine-year-old son, Taigan, was taken to the hospital by helicopter. The boy is in a stable condition. “It was very selfless on the part of the fathers to jump into the water to save the child. If not for them, the boy probably would not have survived,” Brock said.
Previously it was reported that in the US state of Florida a man got into a rip current and died saving his daughter. Divers found his body 800 meters from the place where he was last seen.