"An absolute hero": 10-year-old boy rescues drowning swimmer
Miles Babcock has been made an honorary member of Careflight after saving a woman who was drowning in Sydney Harbour.
Miles, who is just 10 years old, was paddle boarding with his dad Graham when they spotted the woman who was struggling in the water.
The 10-year-old remained calm and collected after spotting the woman in distress, and began directing his dad over to help the woman out of the water.
Graham could not contain his pride for his son, telling Today that he did everything in his power to rush to her aid.
"I'm just incredibly proud, it's one of those confronting situations where you never really know how you're going to react," Graham said.
"But Miles was the one who spotted the lady in distress, he kept the board steady and told me to get in the water and go and get her, he helped get her onto the board, helped turn her onto the side and helped pat her on the back to help clear her airways."
"And then as soon as I asked him to jump off the board because we needed to get into shore as quickly as possible, he just did exactly that."
Another nearby paddleboarder helped get the lady onto Miles and Graham's board, while Miles stayed behind to catch a ride back to shore with another boarder.
"He was a real, real trooper and an absolute hero on the day," Graham said.
"And then all the people who came in and helped were just fantastic, it was one of those things where everyone came together."
People on the shore had already called triple zero and the Careflight team worked with lifeguards and paramedics to help get the woman to hospital where she is recovering.
In the days after the rescue, Miles was called into the Careflight base to meet with the crew who helped the drowning woman, as they made him an an honorary Air Crew Officer and praised his "heroic rescue".
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