Payton College Prep student Claire Luning said she was halfway through swimming the 50-yard butterfly during a practice two weeks ago at Jones College Prep when something felt off.

“I remember breathing really hard,” said Luning, 16, a junior and member of the Jones-Payton swim team. “I mean, I was racing, but it didn’t feel normal. I couldn’t breathe. I wasn’t taking in enough oxygen, and I kind of started to panic, but I kept going for some reason. It kind of went fuzzy then … I remember grabbing onto the lane line and people calling my name but I didn’t have the energy to answer them and tell them I was OK.”

Luning was going into cardiac arrest. Her teammate hoisted her up near the gutter and called out to swim coach Mac Varilla, who learned CPR about 10 years ago as a lifeguard with the Chicago Park District but never had to use it before.

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Thursday afternoon in Helsingborg, Sweden, a man suddenly fell through one of the roof windows of the public swimming pool Simhallsbadet, and 14 meters down into the children’s pool.

– “He landed on his side and stomach and that was lucky. The pool is only 70 centimeters deep. He definitely had a guardian angel watching over him, ” says Stefanos Manoloudis, swimming pool manager.

– “In the little pool where he landed, there fortunately was only a father with his little son, and they were some distance away,” says Manoloudis.

In the stands there were children with their parents attending a swim school lesson, who became witnesses to the man’s lengthy fall.

– “They saw it all and some were of course shocked,” says Manouloudis.

The man was brought to the hospital in Helsingborg, but had sustained only minor injures and could later the same evening leave it on his own accord.

The police is investigating the incident. The swimming pool staff have been busy cleaning the pools for glass splinters, and need to empty the kiddy pool, but hoped to be able to open the main pool already today.

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