Canadian nurse rescues girl from powerful rip current: ‘I was just trying to get to her’
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When Nova Scotia's Emily Churchill heard a panicked scream while enjoying a day at the beach with her friend, she says, 'instinct took over.'
When Emily Churchill heard a panicked scream while enjoying a day at the beach with her friend, she says, “instincts took over.”
It’s a good thing it did because, in seconds, a 12-year-old had been pulled out to sea by a powerful rip current.
“I noticed a head out in the water, which was getting pulled out very quickly. When I saw her moving out further and faster, I started running as quickly as I could,” Churchill says.
Churchill is the nurse behind the brave rescue Global News reported happened last Wednesday at Conrad Beach, just over half an hour east of Halifax.
Twelve-year-old Fiona Poulin was at the beach that day with her friend and friend’s mom and the girls had been getting out of the water when she was hit by a large wave that pulled her into the rip current and carried her out to sea.
Churchill, an off-duty nurse, ran into the water without hesitating to help the young swimmer struggling to get back to shore and keep her head above water.
“The waves were very strong and were bigger than I was expecting. I was trying to keep my footing on the bottom as much as possible, but there’s so much seaweed out there, so I was just trying to get to her, calling out to her, yelling her name,” Churchill recalls.
“By the time I got to her, we just reached out to each other, pulled each other in, and I told her, ‘You’re doing so well. You did so good. We’re going to get you back.’”
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