One Dive Can Change Your Life Forever #shorts

Diving is the 4th leading cause of paralyzing spinal cord injuries - #Diving makes the list of the top 5 causes of spinal cord injuries with paralysis. (89% male, 11% female). Most individuals who are injured are 20-29 years old. Water can be deceptive, even if you are a good judge of depth. Many individuals who sustain #spinalcordinjuries echo the same lament, “I thought I had good perception skills. I thought I could trust myself to stay safe.” Water often appears to be deeper than it is, which can lead to devastating errors of judgment even for experienced swimmers/divers. Each of us have a responsibility to keep ourselves and loved ones safe from preventable diving-related spinal cord injuries:
- Educate yourself about safe behaviors and SHARE the safety info
- Always swim with a lifeguard
- Enter water feet first, even if you do not plan to dive
- Don’t dive at all to maximize your chances of preventing injury and paralysis

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[andrewl]

The scariest thing about life is that mistakes can happen in .1 seconds but have repercussions lasting a lifetime.

[RetRNmamawMe]

I totally agree! As a nurse, I took care of a young man in his late 20s that dove headfirst into a cove of a lake. There was a large rock beneath the surface by a few murky inches, not visible to the group playing in the water. This young man’s head struck the rock with full-on forward velocity. He ended up with a spinal cord injury between C3 & C4; causing paralysis from his neck down. So sad! So tragic!! So preventable 😔!!!

[freedomartwork]

I remember as a teen in Maryland reading in the newspaper about a girl my age who dove into the Bay and broke her neck and was paralyzed from the chest down. That stuck with me, and kept me from doing lots of foolish things. I always wondered what became of her; I guess because we were the same age and it really struck me how different her life must be from mine. Years later, I read a book by Joni Eareckson Tada and realized she was that girl. She gives a very raw, honest account of the tremendous difficulties and hard-won joys of her life as a quadriplegic. She had only 17 care-free years of life before her accident. She has spent nearly 60 long years in a wheelchair. It's not worth it for that momentary rush - your life will never be the same. There are safe ways to have fun, and diving head first into the unknown is not worth that risk.

[caroleastmond]

This is so true!!!
Because sometimes people don't know if they are Diving into the Shallow end, or the Deep end of the Water, even at beaches and some pools there are Signs, saying, "Don't dive in here, this is the Shallow end, " and people still dive in and get injured.

[sftsacekhan]

Wow...common sense being taught on YouTube. Please keep making videos like this, bring back common sense to the masses!

[DestineeGrimes]

This is so true because one of my friends was diving in water, and it was shorter than he thought it was, and he has to go through therapy for spinal injury

[yeye_]

no one is talking about the guy that dived into the sand and suffocating

[Syclodelict]

Girl died when I was in primary school on a school field trip. She was a very good and strong swimmer but unfamiliar with the pool and dove into a shallow area.

[Soccertz]

Right!!! I tell that to everyone I can. I worked in physical therapy in a trauma hospital and had to work with a super young good looking guy who dove headfirst into a rock. Paralyzed from the neck down and needing a breathing tube. So sad 😢

[SharonRepici]

We were waterskiing and my dad stopped about 80’ from shore to setup the ropes and skies. My brother was ready to dive over the side when dad said stop! He caught sight of a bicycle sticking up. Used a fishing pole and it was barely 4’ deep. Not only would it have been dangerous to dive, but we were inches away from getting the motor fins caught up in that mess.
btw, this was the summer of 72 and the drought had lowered that lake (Elephant Butte in NM) by over 20’.

[aidanfordsword]

One of my cousins used to be a life guard (probably 40+ years ago) and he decided to come to work drunk or start drinking at the pool. He dove heard first into the shallow end of the pool and is now paralyzed, he can speak just fine and move his arms a little bit but that's the only movement hes got.

[deroxanlit]

I broke my ribs and knee, ankle from cliff diving in Florida. I thought I jump far enough but there was like these big ass round under the water those rock 🪨 tangled up with all the seaweed or something tied up all the rocks underneath the water! I couldn’t see it and the water look clear. Everyone jumped into the water but nobody knew about it or they should have warned me. The doctor at the ER said I was extremely lucky that it was my rib and not the spine

[AuroraLakes]

It was the mid 90's and I worked at Albertson's. One of my co workers got married. Young love, highschool sweethearts, and on their honeymoon he dove head first into a pool at a friends apartment. He is a parapalegic for life. Id love to know if they made it.

[littleboots]

I remember that brazilian dancer on bondi that dove into the waves and hit a sandbank and was instantly paralysed neck down. It was just awful. His friends dragged him out of the water because of course he couldnt move. Seeing him lying on the sand, such a young, athletic body and the fear in his eyes, it was awful. It was on that TV reality show about the lifeguards. I was so shocked, just from hitting a sandbank, not off a pier or cliff, just diving into the waves and it paralysed him. I hope hes doing ok.

[contytub]

Was going to river for years ... one time we returned when heat came back but aparently the water was muddy and hiden the fact that the shore was shorter and now bedrock was exposed half a meter under the surface . Guy dived face down and ended up in ER with a smashed face and plenty of other wounds and cuts. Lucky he didn't break his neck/spine

[bleedingroze]

I was a kid, waiting in the ER for a minor issue. I saw a girl walk in wearing a bathing suit with her head wrapped up tightly in a towel. Never jumped headfirst into a pool again.

[MyCatInABox]

The human body, while amazing, is startlingly fragile.

[k.r.m.]

Buena recomendación. Es importante tener técnica para zambullirse 😊

[antoniocappione]

Wow the first one, beautiful and awesome...

[cheesemaker]

Better losing an arm or a leg than breaking your spine, or even better don't risk your life to prove to other or social pressure