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LOW ISLAND—A quiet day at the beach down at Little Current’s Low Island beach suddenly erupted into chaos with the discovery of an unresponsive man floating in the water by the swimming docks. Two young girls heroically struggled to bring the man to shore while bystanders rushed over to help. The two youths who jumped into action were newly graduated Grade 8 students Lauren Musquetier and Keira Priddle. 

The girls share with The Expositor the moment they realized something was very wrong. “We were swimming out from the docks, it was kind of far out,” said Keira, “I couldn’t tell if he (the man in the water) jumped in or if he got pushed in or if something else happened, but all of a sudden I look over and he’s in the water and I didn’t see him struggling at first, but his wife, she was motioning to us asking ‘can you help?’ She wasn’t yelling our names because she didn’t know our names, but she was like, ‘excuse me, can you help? He can’t swim well. Can you push him towards the dock?’ but I didn’t know that he was already like struggling and going under.”

Keira saw the top of the struggling swimmer’s head just above the water.

“I swam over there and (Lauren) was behind me,” Keira said. “I swam over to him, and he was like this far from the top of the water.”  Keira holds her hands up measuring roughly two feet.