A very sad story from the New York Daily News about a swimmer who died during the Brooklyn Bridge swim last weekend:
"... Solon said his uncle, who was born in Brooklyn but lived in San Francisco, swam two hours a day and was in great shape."It's shocking," he said. Police said Baglione's quick thinking gave the doomed swimmer a fighting chance.
"She did a great job," a police source at the scene said while a shivering [Melody] Baglione stood nearby, wrapped in a towel.
"She performed CPR and everything. It was heroic."
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There was once a Mt. Everest Climber that succumbed to altitude issues and though alive other climbers passed him on the way up and the way down from the summit because the amount of effort and shared oxygen to save the climber could have possibly led to their own demise. Wimps!
His name was David Sharp and here was the report: [Link]
When I read that I was outraged and Jamie was nearby and said it best, "I would rather say I rescued someone off of Mount Everest rather than say I climbed it!"
I think what Melody Baglione did was not just a heroic effort but a courageous and compassionate one as well.
