00:00My name is David and I'm Lily's dad
00:04Normal summer's day. I was in work
00:07Kiki rang me to see if we fancy going down the beach in the night
00:11so
00:12After work, we all went down the beach and I was about it for them that day
00:20We're all on the beach everything seemed to be normal I was further up the beach with my oldest daughter and I
00:27could see keeks
00:30Shouting so I looked over and run. I run down the beach to Kiki
00:35And it's then she told me that she thinks Lily's struggling to get back to shore because the wind was blowing her quite a way out
00:42so I
00:45Started panicking a little bit and told her I'm gonna have to go in and try and get her
00:47So I went into the sea and tried to get to her
00:53When I seen Lily
00:54Lily was shouting and she looked a bit panicked. So it was then I realized that she can't get back in
01:00Firstly that I've just got to get to her. So I took my top of my trainers and I went into the sea and
01:08Started trying to swim out to her but
01:10The harder I was trying to swim I was looking up and she was getting further and further away. So I
01:16Realized I wouldn't be able to get to her
01:18I was just feeling pure panic and the thing just thinking I'd we need to try and do something need to try and get to
01:24And then she was just getting further and further away. I
01:28Remember I stopped swimming
01:33Looked over to the beach
01:35Could see kicks. She was on her knees just screaming like
01:41screaming as loud as she could and
01:43luckily, she might she'd already rang the 999 to
01:47Alert them so and help was on its way
01:50But I remember
01:52shouting to Lily then please please can you hold on Lill's and
01:57Then she was just getting further and further away then I
02:00remember thinking
02:03Relief I remember thinking
02:06As silly as it is thinking to myself if she comes off now, it won't matter because they're close enough to save her but
02:13When it stopped for a few minutes and we still didn't know if she was on the board
02:16That's we're still panicking them. Like I thought I thought I'd never see her again
02:21felt like I didn't thank him enough when it all happened, but
02:25Be nice to see him today. So thank you. Absolutely
02:30Without them. I would have lost the daughter. So
02:34Everything to us now before I one of them that took them for granted but
02:38Until you're in that situation and you need them. That's when you realize how important they are
02:43in April
02:46They're gonna be doing two marathons the Newport and the London Marathon hopefully raised a bit of money for him
02:52Just like I said before I felt like I didn't say thank you enough to him on the day
02:57So my it's my way of just trying to give a bit back. So
03:01don't take it for granted be always be observant and
03:06Be careful really and if anything does happen, you know, you can ring straight away for for help
03:11During that 40 minutes those times I thought I'd never see her again. So it means that absolutely everything to us
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