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 A "very lucky" casino dealer narrowly avoided death while on vacation with his wife in New Zealand. The man - who wishes to remain anonymous - was snorkeling at Mahurangi Island when he suffered a heart attack and bobbed up out of the water floating on his back. He was dragged out of the ocean by Darryl Syme and Steve Miller who responded to the desperate screams of the dealer's wife. It took about 45 minutes of perfectly executed CPR but the dealer recovered and was rushed to the hospital by the Tairua-Pauanui Coastguard.
To put things in prospective there is about a 4% survival rate for people who all unconscious while underwater and that rate is even lower if you consider the shock that was delivered by the heart attack and the cold water. "To survive after this long, there needs to be monumentally good CPR and the guy needs to be lucky. The two men who did CPR did everything absolutely book-perfect and we were able to retrieve him," said St. John team leader Steve Morgan.
The casino dealer has been living in New Zealand for about 17 years and it appears that the incident has not affected his love for the water. He and his wife were extremely grateful for the valiant efforts of his rescuers and his wife told reports, "We want to thank them all. We really appreciate they saved him and did a very, very good job."
Syme and Miller had never done a real life resuscitation before but both of them remembered their training and performed admirably. If they hadn't been in the right place at the right time there is very little doubt that the dealer would not have survived.
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Photo: NZPA
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