Danger in the deep

By James Hayes                                                                                                        year502

On Saturday a life guard trainee was having a swim as part of his training course. He was getting close to passing the final level of his training. When he had finished he would be

a real life guard. The young man was a little over confident for my liking. It was a dark day and the sea was rough. This did not bother him for he was a good swimmer. As the trainee  swam up and down the beach he did not see anyone because it was early in the morning. The teenager noticed that the water was pulling him under! It was spinning him around. He was in a rip current! He tried to swim to shore but he couldn’t. Luckily a man was walking his dog near by and saw the teenager in distress. The heroic man dived in the sea and swum over to the boy through raging waves.

The man got to the boy and tried to pull him in! Alas he and the boy were sucked away. A search party found no sign of them. They were never found and the dog returned to that beach every day until he died two years later.