00:00When I checked him, he had no pups, so that's...
00:05And we have to understand that this is one occasion.
00:14Maybe one minute they're able to talk, and by the next second they're out.
00:20And this is what we're saying about training, that we can't just say, yes, he's okay,
00:26and then think that this is okay, because it's also cognitive.
00:31I work with brain injury. It takes seven minutes until the brain injury can cause.
00:37It can be mildly caused, but it's a lot of cognitive. It's a huge difference.
00:44Sara, a person of Sweden who assisted in performing CPR on Christian Batesby.
00:50In an express report today called for urgent changes in Trinidad and Tobago's lifeguard services,
00:56person and Canadian Anna Hospidalis were critical of response by lifeguards during the incident.
01:03Today, an emotional Sharon Vasquez, mother of Caribbean Airlines pilot Christian Batesby,
01:09said thanks to those who assisted in reviving her son last Saturday morning.
01:15Batesby, 26, was injured last Saturday after he jumped off the Pigeon Point jetty hitting his head.
01:21He continues to recover at hospital.
01:24Angel Sarah, Angel Anna, and the other angels who came and rescued, revived, gave back life to my son.
01:44I want to say thank you from the bottom, from the bottom of my heart.
01:53God is going to bless you abundantly.
01:58Mrs. Vasquez recounted her interaction with her son on his hospital bed.
02:04I want to just say one thing I do with my son and my children.
02:13We communicate I love you all the time.
02:19He tells me I love you, mommy.
02:24I tell him I love you, son.
02:29I looked at him on his recovery bed and while I cannot hear him, he's motioning I love you.
02:42Tourism Secretary Tasha Boris sought to make some facts known in relation to the incident at Pigeon Point.
02:50I want to state a fact.
02:53Our lifeguards pulled Mr. Batesby out of the water.
02:57That is a fact.
02:59Because if that did not happen, we would not be here.
03:02I want to state a second fact.
03:05That Ms. Pearson and Ms. Hospidalis and Mr. Evans stepped in and were able to stabilize Mr. Batesby on the beach.
03:14And that is why our EMTs could have taken him to the hospital.
03:18And he could have gotten the care that he got.
03:21And he was able to be further stabilized.
03:26The Tourism Secretary said there is a need to review and examine the readiness of Tobago as a tourism destination and to treat with any eventuality.
03:36It doesn't end here.
03:38We have to examine our readiness.
03:41We talk about being a tourist destination, but we only talk about the good things.
03:45We talk about the parties and the culture and every possible good thing happens.
03:50But are we ready for when things go wrong?
03:53She said having adequate staff for Tobago's beaches is to be looked at.
03:58This is our opportunity to take stock.
04:01For us to look at our beach facilities and ask ourselves, for the thousands of people who visit on any given weekend, do we really have enough staff?
04:09Should we put EMTs on our beaches?
04:11Should we have ambulances on standby in southwest Tobago?
04:15Especially when we know that on weekends we have a number of visitors from Trinidad.
04:19We have to look at holistically, not just tourism, not just lifeguards, not just hospital, but the part that we all have to play in ensuring that the people who visit here can be safe when they visit here.
04:31And if something, God forbid, goes wrong, that we're ready to respond.
04:34There were also comments by the head of the lifeguards and the management of the Pigeon Point Heritage Park.
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