A teen drowns on Gull Lake near Minden in Toronto. His body was pulled from the lake by responding paramedics and taken to the Haliburton Highlands Health Services hospital in Minden where the boy was eventually declared dead.
An annual camp for engineering students from the University of Toronto was stop due to the fatal drowning of a boy from Mississauga. Before the incident, the boy was in the water with his friends swimming. He was separated from his friends in the water. They began looking for him and other people in the swimming group removed him from the water and they started giving him cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid but he was never resuscitated. The body of the dead boy was taken to the office of the coroner for a post mortem examination. In news posted on the website of the university, the student who drowned was also a student in engineering in the university.
Lack of swimming skills
According to the uncle of the victim, his nephew does not know how to swim and why have he gone to the water.
The camp was built on the 175-acre and it is the property of the University of Toronto. It was purchased in 1919. The camp is used for training for the undergraduate of mineral and civil engineering students for surveying lands and management of engineering projects. The camp is provided with bunkhouses for the accommodation of students; cottage for the staff, for the teaching assistants and for the professors. It is also provided with teaching facility for tutorials and lectures. But the majority of the work is done out in the fields.
According to a set of camp rules for safety measures, the students must notify the instructor of the camp in advance, the students are not allowed to swim in the water unless accompanied by a swimming buddy who can provide help in case of emergency. Diving in the lake and rowdy behavior and excessive consumption of alcohol by students is not also allowed.
The university has resources for the faculty and students who needs any kind of support through the Health and Wellness Center and Good 2 Talk.
According to one source, there have been a number of water-related deaths in the area and usually due to not being strong swimmers. Always take precautions by staying out of the water altogether. Respect the power of water. It gives us relief and life, but can take life very fast.
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LEARN MORE
Learn how to help by enrolling in a first aid training class and for more information, check out these sources:
https://www.emedicinehealth.com/drowning/article_em.htm
https://www.wikihow.com/Do-Basic-First-Aid
https://www.mayoclinic.org/first-aid/first-aid-cpr/basics/art-20056600