FORMER NHLER RISKS LIFE TO SAVE 6 YEAR OLD GIRL FROM DROWNING IN THE BAHAMAS
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On May 10 around 12 p.m., Foucault was
having lunch with his wife and two children by a pool
about 50 feet above Cabbage Beach, on the north shore
of Nassau, when he heard people on the beach below
screaming for help. At the same time, Foucault's
mother-in-law and sister-in-law were coming back from
a walk on the beach. Before they ascended the stairs to
reach the pool, Foucault asked if what he saw out in the
water was a shark or a body.
"It's a little girl," said Jackie Kirk, Focault's mother-in-
law.
Foucault dropped his phone and food, sprinted toward
the beach and dove in the water.
"As I got through the wave, I saw her lifeless body
floating on the top about 50 feet in front of me," he said.
"I actually thought I was just recovering a body
When Foucault reached the girl, he said her lips were
blue and there were brown and white fluids leaking from
her mouth and nose. Only the whites of her eyes
showed.
She was completely unconscious. Swimming
with a shoulder on which he had surgery two months
earlier, Foucault lifted the girl above the water and saw
her fingers and toes flutter. As he adjusted treading with
the extra weight, another man trying to help reached
them.
Foucault, propping the girl up out of the water from the
back of her neck, swam toward the shore as the other man swam beside him. Their feet then touched the
ground.
From there, Foucault picked the girl up with both arms
and walked her to the shore, where a lifeguard who ran
over from a nearby beach was waiting. Foucault said the
lifeguard immediately put the girl down on her side
where she threw up fluids. The lifeguard then started
performing CPR and fully resuscitated the girl, who
clung to her mom and cried
She was taken to a hospital and has had no contact with
Foucault since.
