A Byron Shire councillor is hoping to introduce a regulation that will see surfers fined up to $1,100 for not wearing a leg rope, likening the practice to being as easy as "'wearing seatbelts".
so we designed a study to work out whether pushing on the groin over the femoral artery, as you describe, or using the leg rope would be the best, and we found that pushing the groin was by far the best way of stopping the blood flow. so it is really quite easy. you just lay the person down who is bleeding and you find their midline where their generals are and you find the outside of the hip bone, and the groin crease is where the leg joins onto the body, so all you need to do is, in the middle of that spot, push down as hard as you can and you will compress the femoral artery and stop the blood flowing to the leg. residents in south western spain have a mammoth clean up operation ahead, after towns were inundated with floodwater following torrential rain. it comes as world leaders focus on the climate crisis during talks at the un general assembly. tanya dendrinos reports. a torrent of fast flowing water, streets submerged after heavy rain caused flash flooding in parts of south west
an australian doctor says he has developed a new first aid method which could help save shark attack victims from fatal blood loss from the legs. the technique requires a by stander to use their fist and apply pressure between the hip bone and groin area. well, that doctor is nicholas taylor, who explains how the technique works. we developed this technique because bleeding from shark bites is really catastrophic and the injuries that sharks cause is, you know, lots and lots of damage to the muscles, sometimes the bones and blood vessels in the leg. we knew that trying to put pressure on the bleeding point where people would normally try and fix bleeding would not be successful. we also knew that bystanders try and use a surfboard leg rope to improvise a tourniquet, and we didn t know whether that would be successful or not,
when that happens. i sort of felt something start pulling on my leg. i guess that when it was stucken my leg rope. i knew something was wrong then. have you seen sharks out there before? i haven t seen sharks out there at that time. but yeah not, not so much that close. you know, a bit of a bait fish around and stuff look that. i hadn t seen many sharks up until then. so when the fin of the shark comes out of the water that s when the viewers realized what was going on. was that the first kind of actual glimpse you got of it? yeah pretty much. the viewers saw it. exactly how i first saw it too. you know i think if i saw it earlier i would have raised my arms and came in. unfortunately it was too quick, too fast. yeah we all got to see what happens. seemed like it kept coming back.
thinking. but, yeah i didn t, i didn t know if i would have had enough time to react. or whatever. i just thought, well you know kind can t go down without a fight. there was a time when a wave blocks the view. and, and the viewers, we can t see what s happening. at that point, were you separated from your board? yeah i had been knocked off my board. and, yeah that s when the the shark bit through my leg rope. and but, yeah it circled back around. that s when it, yeah, just came straight past me. i was just push might way away from it. you know? and, just trying to just trying to get out of its way really. and then yeah i had that decision to either go for my board or or go for shore, and i figured the shark was closer to my board. i want to shore. i understand you got back to the water pretty quickly? yeah i took a week out.