I popped up, swam over to the girl and lifted her out of the water, Bauer said. Her mouth was open, her eyes were semi open. And then I raised my shoulder very high and aggressively patted her on her back. Within seconds she spit up a bunch of water and started coughing.
A nearby boat picked up the child and Bauer to take them to shore, where emergency responders met them.
Watching her father leap from the bridge scared Ava, she said. She worried her father would land head first in the Assawoman Bay and hurt himself, or even worse. He landed feet first.
Toddler Thrown From Truck Into Bay in Crash Then Heroic Bystander Leaps In, Saves Her Life
A toddler was thrown from a truck, off a bridge, and into the water of a bay in Maryland during a vehicle collision on May 2. Heroically, a good Samaritan leapt in and retrieved the baby girl with help from nearby boaters.
The five-car crash occurred just before 3 p.m. on a Route 90 bridge connecting Ocean City to the rest of Worcester County. The impact threw a 23-month-old, still in her car seat, from one of the vehicles into Assawoman Bay, according to a press release.
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When you drink too much water, your kidneys can t get rid of the excess. The sodium content of your blood becomes diluted. This is called hyponatremia and it can be life-threatening.
Water intoxication?
Stöppler, 2017, defined water intoxication as a lowered blood concentration of sodium (hyponatremia).
The term ‘water intoxication’ is generally used to refer to hyponatremia that occurs due to the consumption of excess water without adequate replacement of sodium, as may happen during strenuous exercise.
Hence, hyponatremia implies low sodium levels in the blood (the term, which has Latin and Greek roots, literally means “insufficient salt in the blood”).
Good Samaritan speaks out for 1st time after jumping 25 feet to save girl in Maryland bay TODAY 5/8/2021 Francesca Gariano
Jonathan Bauer, the good Samaritan who saved a two-year-old girl by jumping 25 feet off a bridge into a Maryland bay last Sunday, is speaking out for the first time about the incident.
Bauer, who initially didn’t want to be identified after rescuing the toddler, recalled the five-car accident on the Route 90 bridge in Ocean City, Maryland that led to the toddler being thrown into Assawoman Bay at a press conference Friday.
During the press conference, shared by WJLA, Bauer explained that the first thing he remembered hearing was the screeching of tires and then he saw a truck turn over on the bridge s railing. He went to try to help a passenger get out of the truck and once the passenger safely exited the vehicle, Bauer said they didn t say much and simply pointed down at the water.