New Zealand – A fisherman rescues an 18-month-old toddler – Panorama

• In New Zealand, an infant was rescued from drowning.
• The little boy had escaped from his parents' tent sleeping in the morning and had gone to the sea.
• A fisherman spotted the 18-month-old boy and rescued him.

Usually retired New Zealand pensioner Gus Hutt, retired, is heading straight from his holiday home on Matata Beach up to the waterfront of Plenty Bay early in the morning. A holiday, relaxing, close to nature, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Campgrounds and resorts line up here, just under 300 kilometers southeast of Auckland on the North Island. But this morning, the fisherman Gus Hutt decides to eject his canes to a hundred meters more than usual. A coincidence that saved the life of an 18-month-old boy.

"At first I thought it was a doll," Hutt told the regional newspaper Whakatane tag, "His face looked like porcelain, his short hair was wet on his head, but suddenly, he let out a scream and I thought:" My God, it's a baby! " Hutt took the boy out of the water and saved his life. "If only I had been there a minute later, I would not have seen it," he said. "The boy was very lucky, he just should not die, his time has not come yet."

The rescuer alerted the fire department, the boy was taken to the hospital as a precaution. Immediately after Hutt took the child out of the sea, his wife woke parents up with the question, "Where is your baby?" The camp management had informed the Hutts that only a family with an infant would stay at the campsite.

"He had started purple, was cold and looked smaller than usual," said the mother of the escapee later Whakatane tagThe boy had recovered well. "He's as usual, maybe he's more careful with the water now and can not just run on the beach." The New Zealand Water Safety Authority's director, Jonty Mills, said that there was a "miracle rescue" in connection with the incident, which occurred in October. In a small child, it often takes less than a minute to drown in the water.

Apparently, the toddler had been noticed by the parents and had opened the zipper of the tent in which they slept. Then he went to the water. After the child was brought to the hospital, Hutt told the newspaper that he had again run his way from the tent to the sea, following the boy's footsteps in the sand until he reached the hospital. To the water.

With AFP and AP agency material