My feelings are not the concern here , its the disgusting fucking picture that was posted <| sep |> kek This one . kek kek <| sep |> TV hack WHO GETS TO INTERVIEW THE PRESIDENT . Yes , he ' s a hack . But he ' s not treated the way a hack should be treated . If he was just a random asshole on the fringe of the national conversation , then bringing him up would be meaningless . But he ' s not . He ' s treated seriously as a journalist . <| sep |> Lifeguard hereIf it ' s a controlled environment like a pool and you have back up , no you just rescue them directly . Ideally you approach them from behind so they don ' t see you coming and you lift them up until they ' re shoulders are out of the water pia carry , named after Frank Pia . Once their shoulders are out of the water they will stop panicking . Where I worked two guards would usually get there at the same time , we were very fast . Lifeguards usually know who is going to drown before it happens and 95 % of our job is preventing them from ever getting close to needing our help . If you are alone , then you do the ladder approach which is trying to rescue them using the least risky to riskiest approach . The lowest rung of the ladder is shouting at them what to do such as turn to your back and kick and the more risky approaches are that you get in the water to rescue them . You bring a floatation device and kick it to them such that you are ready in case they grab at you to kick them away . Once they have it ideally you instruct them to kick , following you . Failing that you can tow them with the floatation device such that you never touch them . If someone does get a hold of you and is drowning you happened to me once really the best thing you can do is sink down . A drowning person isn ' t going to hold on to something that is sinking , that defeats the purpose . Swim deep and get away and then reapproach the situation as above .