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Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.

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[–] 52 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I remember this interactive game/video where you can try it out yourself

http://spotthedrowningchild.com/

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeh, it's an http site. So any browsers that require https will block/warn.

    But also, holy hell is it obvious once you realise.
    Arms up, then swipe down out to the sides, and repeat. Like frantically trying to fly.
    As SOON as they are in trouble, it's arms flailing in that pattern. Like, look for white splashing water and assess if it's playing or panic.

    A few you can tell who it is gonna be because they flip off their donut. And a few you can tell cause they are trying to swim but are looking up and aren't keeping their mouth above the water (I clicked on one of these to be told "it's fine" only for them to start thrashing and get rescued when I resumed the video)

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Your link is automatically converting to https on my phone which for some reason doesn't work.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Odd, its a pretty old website so maybe something broke. Looks like they have issues with their certificate or something

    When I manually edit it to https, I needed to accept the risk to see it

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It seems that many browsers detect that the site does serve an HTTPS version and upgrades the connection, though the certificate is invalid.

    Unless the website is supposed to do something more that I’m simply not seeing myself, it appears to simply embed this one YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9npOp9WhWM

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