Overview
- During a mid-August visit to the Nordheim outdoor pool, an 11-year-old and a 12-year-old pulled a four-year-old from the bottom after he jumped from the diving tower and sank.
- The pool is 3.85 meters deep, and Leo dived nearly four meters as the pair brought the child up using a towing technique practiced a week earlier in a DLRG course.
- At the pool edge, Marlene pressed water from the boy’s stomach and he began breathing again within moments.
- Nordheim’s mayor Volker Schriek praised the pair as role models and urged parents to be more mindful of their responsibility at poolside.
- Marlene and Leo later grasped the stakes of their actions, as national discussion continues over rising drownings and gaps in children’s swimming skills.