'I'm not sure she maybe realised how much danger she had been in.'
A surfer has warned young people about the potential dangers of sea-swimming after rescuing a young girl from the water at Ballygally beach near Larne.
"In my 20 years of surfing, I've been in a couple of situations but that was by far the worst, I don't think she had much longer," the man said. "So I had a look and I couldn't really see anything bar a speck in the distance and I wasn't sure if it was even her, I thought it might have been one of the deep water swimmers or something.
"I got her up on the board and she lay on top of it for a while and we had a chat and then I started the paddle back in, it took about 10 minutes to get back in against the current," he said. The man added that the best way to look after yourself in the water was not to venture in too deep and to always have someone with you in case things did go wrong.
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