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Premium Content Subscriber only It is not like the movies, with flailing arms splashing the water and gurgled cries for help. It is silent, quick and a leading killer of children and young people. Drowning is the leading cause of unintentional death among young people with the greatest toll among children under the age of five, new data has found. James Cook University Associate Professor Richard Franklin said 10 years of data from Australia, New Zealand and Canada found a drop in drowning deaths among people under 20, but a large increase in drownings for adolescent females and First Nat...

Health by Elise Williams Premium Content   To many, he's a hero, but ask this father of three of the moment he saved his son's life when he fell into the family pool, and he'll tell you he was just doing what any dad would do. It was a spring day in Jimboomba when Aaron Melville was forced to perform CPR on his then two-year-old son Omari, after he was pulled unconscious from the gated pool. "He was unconscious and he was blue, purple," Mr Melville said of the moment he thought his son would die. "When I grabbed him, his eyes were open and they were ...

Aaron Melville said he was running on instinct when he performed CPR on his son’s limp, blue body, before his little one let out a gasp for air.

Aaron Melville said he was running on instinct when he performed CPR on his son’s limp, blue body, before his little one let out a gasp for air.

Aaron Melville said he was running on instinct when he performed CPR on his son’s limp, blue body, before his little one let out a gasp for air.