Katarzyna Porada, a Polish woman visiting Lanzarote, saved a child from drowning in Playa Honda this Tuesday after the minor was unable to get out of the water due to the strong current.
According to Porada, she was walking along the beach when she heard the desperate screams of the child's mother because "she was hysterically screaming at him to get out of the water." "I got the impression that the child had no control over himself and was getting further and further away from the shore," says the woman.
Without thinking twice, Katarzyna decided to jump into the water to rescue the minor, who was "approximately 12 years old and of British origin." "I got into the water and tried to bring him closer to the shore," she explains.
In her heroic act, Porada lost her glasses. "I don't have good vision and while I was swimming towards the child, I held my glasses with one hand to be able to see where he was," she says. It so happens that the woman practiced swimming and competed in her childhood and adolescence, something that helped her in this situation.
"I was very confident, but the truth is that the feeling was that the sea was doing whatever it wanted with me, it was impressive, I felt like a rag doll," reveals the woman. "If I think about it more, I probably wouldn't have done it because I was unaware because I'm not very fond of the sea and I didn't know that the waves had so much power," she says.
After managing to get the child out of the water, the child's mother thanked Porada for her heroism. "She gave me the biggest hug I've ever been given in my life because she was very upset," she says.
In addition, the Local Police and an ambulance went to the scene, although according to her, "it was not necessary because the child was fine."
