3 swimmers pulled from water at Mayflower Seashore in Dennis

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All three have been in “varied levels of medical misery,” police mentioned.

Three feminine swimmers needed to be pulled from the water at Mayflower Seashore in Dennis on Thursday afternoon. All three have been in “varied levels of medical misery” when police arrived and have been taken to Cape Cod Hospital for therapy.

Round 3 p.m. on Thursday, Dennis Seashore Division employees alerted Dennis police that they’d pulled a attainable drowning sufferer from the water. When first responders arrived quickly after, lifeguards and bystanders had pulled three attainable drowning victims from the water.

Dennis police had no updates on the three victims’ circumstances on Friday morning, however fellow beachgoers who helped pull them ashore informed 7News that two have been responsive by the point first responders arrived, and the third was nonetheless unconscious.

Amy Monteiro, a nurse who was on the seashore on the time, mentioned she helped get one of many girls to shore and administered first help.

“Fortunately, she had a pulse,” Monteiro mentioned. “She didn’t have a lot of a response at that second however we did do some little bit of a sternum rub.” 

Monteiro mentioned there have been different nurses close by who additionally helped.

One other bystander, Joe Caloiero, helped lifeguards rescue a youthful lady. 

“Fairly certain she was unconscious,” Caloiero recalled to 7News. “I noticed a bit blink, so I knew there was a bit hope. However I noticed a bit blue in her pores and skin, so it was a bit regarding.”

Monteiro mentioned the youthful lady was responsive earlier than she was taken to the hospital, however the different sufferer she helped deal with was nonetheless unconscious. 

Dennis police are investigating the incident.