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YMCA Aquatics Director Chris Pinto says that it only takes 10 to 20 seconds for a child to get in trouble in the water.

“When you’re not 100 percent vigilant on your swimmers, then they need to get out of the pool and wait for you to get back,” Pinto said.

Chris says that you won’t even hear your child cry for help when they’re in danger, because they can’t.

“Some early warning signs would be inability to respond verbally. That means that they’re already in the drowning process, and water is already in their throat,” Pinto said.

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A rare double flag warning is up near Alabama Point at Orange Beach for a dangerously high volume of sharks in the area, but that hasn’t stopped people from swimming.

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The wife of a man who died after going under the water in a northern Kent County lake said that in his final moments, he urged her to swim to safety.

Charles Cooley and his wife Deborah often spent their weekends on the water in the Chain Lakes in Oakfield Township, southwest of Greenville.

“We fished all summer long. We played bingo all winter long,” Deborah Cooley said.

Saturday started off much the same as many other fishing trips.

“We wasn’t that far from the bank,” Deborah Cooley said. “He stood up and the boat capsized.”