You and your family are going away for the weekend. Your daughter is 7 and is best friends with your niece, who is also 7. Your families are very close and your daughter asks if your niece can come with you on your holiday. You have been on holidays together before and don't see any problem, so you agree.
You arrive at your holiday destination and the house you are staying at backs onto a beach. The girls ask if they can go for a swim. You tell them that they have to wait until you have unpacked the car, but they can play on the sand directly in front of the beach. They run down to the sand, and you begin to unpack the car. After about 5 minutes, you hear screaming coming from the direction of the beach and it sounds like the girls.
You run down to see what the matter is, and you discover that they hadn't listened to you and have gone for a swim. There is no one else on the beach and the girls are caught in a rip.
2007-09-18 22:18:08 · 20 answers · asked by grassmonkeys 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
The girls are really struggling, particularly your niece who isn't as strong a swimmer as your daughter.
You swim out quickly, but when you get there, you realise that there is no way you will be able to get both the girls back into shore on your own. You realise that an agonising decision will need to be made.
You need to decide which of the girls you will rescue first, you have enough strength and energy to rescue them both, but you can only do it one at a time. You look at the two girls, and your niece is really struggling to hold her head above water and you know if you take your daughter back first, there will be little or no chance that she will survive.
Your daughter is struggling also, but is much stronger in the water and you estimate that if you take your niece back to shore first, there's probably a 50% chance that your daughter will be able to stay afloat long enough for you return, but you simply don't know how long she will hold on for.
2007-09-18 22:18:36 · update #1
Who will you save first?
Your Daughter?
or
your Niece?
2007-09-18 22:19:15 · update #2
To Tracie Island, i think i would save the Niece first while telling my daughter to try and lay on her back. Tough one wasnt it.
2007-09-18 22:58:07 · update #3
no doubt your daughter is more important to you, but you'd have to save your niece first as shes got no chance without you.
2007-09-18 22:25:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
toughy..
I think I'd have to say I'd save the niece first then the daughter, based on the fact that the niece was the one in the most danger... but then again I don't have a daughter so I don't know what that sort of choice that would be like for a real Mum. Hopefully there are other people about to help or something... plus you have to wonder why you left them alone on the beach with no supervision.. that's just plain stupidity.
2007-09-18 22:35:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This one is in the bag...Back in the day I qualified for the Olympic
swim team..=)I'd save them both no matter what,there is a way to pull them both to safety as most lifeguards know...however since you want a direct answer I must say the weaker swimmer (Niece) is the first one to be pulled to safety,as my own Daughter would know how to sustain in the water until I can return for her..She's got her Moms strength in swimming..=)
2007-09-18 22:27:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firstly I would not of let my children play by water as children are like a magnet to it at any age! But when in situations like that you find excess energy and would do niece and daughter at the same time. If in your theory you can't do that then isn't worth thinking about as I think you would save your own children first you wouldn't know unless in that situation!
2007-09-18 22:25:49 · answer #4 · answered by ???? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a really tough choice but I would decide to rescue my niece first because I wouldn't be able to live with the grief and guilt if my niece died.
2007-09-19 00:12:31 · answer #5 · answered by Paws 'n' Claws 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get your daughter to assist in the recovery...if she has a 50/50 chance of surviving whilst waiting for you to return after saving the other girl, then she would be able to help...
2007-09-18 22:24:44 · answer #6 · answered by Doodie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How did she get to the conclusion that she hit the person? If you hit him than surely he must have been on the ground before she ran into him? But if you were preoccupied with your CD player and didnt actually see what happened, only felt the bump than how can you be so sure that you killed the person and not the woman? Considering that everything is very unclear you should defo not admit to anything - same goes for her.
2016-05-18 03:32:55 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In moments like this, I'd rather view them as individual lives and not their relations to me. So ya, I'd save my niece first. But who knows what I'll really do when it really happens.
2007-09-18 22:29:43 · answer #8 · answered by HopeGrace 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hope this never happens to me but i would take my niece with me first because she is not a strong swimmer, i would reassure my daughter and tell her to lay on her back and wait till i come back.
again i hope this never happens to me or anyine else
2007-09-18 22:26:58 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the niece! she can't cope i will tell my daughter to hold on! i will also scream out for help and pray someone else can come along to help!
2007-09-18 22:25:17 · answer #10 · answered by MiZz RuBy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a situation like that I would find a way to carry both. Its been proven time and time again that people can do amazing thing on an adrenalin rush.
2007-09-18 22:26:36 · answer #11 · answered by Third_Eye_Dude 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋