Pre race inferno 2012 (41) : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Pre race inferno 2012 (41) / akunamatata
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Boy, it was this kind of day when you look back at it, you think...oh yeah Inferno.Despite the detailed manual (in german), we were pretty optimistic on our chances to complete the process.Fools that we were ! I don't know why we decided to lunch at Interlaken with a couple of french pals, but from that point the race for the park was on...In Oberhofen (T1 road bike park, checking in), everything was going smoothly in this heavenly haven. we were kind of just amazed by the "swissness" of the place, clinical neatness, yeah... anything has a place and a place for anything. We are French don't forget, land of revolution and some endemic allergies to rules (especially littering).While we were heading to the next park (T2 - Mountain bike, Grindelwald), I saw a women running, some frantic discussion with the staff that I did not hear however it was definitely not a small talk, her body gesture was suggesting a sort of emergency. We continue our recon of the water exit path when clearly people in front of us next to the shore were literally freezing, (hum...not moving). Something weird was happening, this kind of moment that your unconscious mind know before it hits the frontal lobes. I through a glance above the parapet and there was this French guy with his swim goggles on in the water asking loudly (in french) where ? And then he dived...F...k drowning situation here, I called my buddies, swimmer gear now !Don't panic, everybody was calling the rescue services (kudo for mobile phone era), check.everyone out of the water (except the french rescuers) check.the first guy pulled out a man (80 kg minimum) from the blue, not an easy task especially if the drown man was down under 5 meters. It feels that he knew how to proceed, my friends Jean Francois, Cyril and Raphael helped him out to putthe poor guy next to the wall. Unfortunately, it was not on waterfree environment, a shallow water was enough to perform CPR.The guy started to vomit, that is good, no water in the lungs, some pulses were even there. The crowd (ok only 10 people max, it was sort of strange to know that 50 meters away triathlete were unaware of this situation) was encouraging the guy, come on, hang in there, fight dammit, as if he was racing against ...death ?Unfortunately they lost the pulse, and then we went silenced, just like if we were praying in our head. Cyril shouted at me, Where is that bloody oxygen ?Ok, it should have been here (the mandatory equipment in Switzerland should include an oxygen tank, did the women explain properly the situation to the person in charge of the swimming pool ?) time to move, I ran to the swimming pool and gosh...where did my proficient English go ? Finally, the women in charge at the swimming pool was looking into it at...snail pace. Frustration, that was my state of mind.I came back to the scene, and they were still performing CPR, then a person from the swimming pool came with a defibrillator...ok, no oxy, and you know what ? can't perform a defib in shallow water. So they have to drag the body 50 meters to a dry location. In the meantime, some people succeeded to have crucial info on the timing. 5 minutes that was the time his girlfriend realized he was missing, 2 more minutes the diver needed to find him. 7 minutes accrued, it was still worth a try but it was a lot of minutes for the brain without O2.The defib said ...continue to CPR (thank you dude !), time is an elastic concept and this kind of situation proved it, where are the goddamn rescue ? They came by boat and road, and installed a security perimeter, started to CPR with a stronger stance, but still no recovery. We were sort of depressed I have to confess, nothing we can do at this point, the slight pre race pressure we could have was gone for sure. We were meditating on the fragile line of life of our existence. Of course we need to prove our mortality through all kind of stuff (Inferno triathlon is one of them) but just a simple lack of air reminds us our condition.Inferno or paradisio ? We have to move on, leave the drama, persuading ourselves that we did our best. |
| 撮影日 | 2012-08-17 15:01:18 |
| 撮影者 | akunamatata |
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