A second chance to realize the importance of first aid

My wife shouted my name and pointed at the boy flailing in - and increasingly under - the water beneath the waterfall in Laos.

I immediately understood and swam over to him.

It was too deep for me to touch the bottom, but I was still able to hoist him above the surface. My wife left our 3-year-old in the shallows near the bank and also helped lift and steer the child, who seemed to be around 6 years old, onto the shore.