Kris Foucault’s family beach vacation took a terrible turn. However, it all ended happily.
Kris Foucault has been hockeying for the last few years in Germany. AOP
Hockey player Kris Foucault is a hero. A 31-year-old Canadian hockey player bravely plunged into the waves on his holiday trip, saving the life of a six-year-old girl.
The Minnesota Wild’s fourth-round booking for 2009 played only one match in the 2014 league, but the puck has continued to this day. This season, Foucault played his sixth season in the German DEL League. In 24 matches in Iserlohn Roosters, the powers were 12 + 16.
At the end of the season, Foucault and his family vacationed in the Bahamas. A beach vacation in the warmth of the tropics took a horrible turn as a scream began to sound from the beach in the middle of breakfast at the hotel’s pool.
It was at the same time that Foucault’s mother-in-law arrived back at the hotel from a beach walk. The hockey player asked him if the lump he saw in the water was a shark or a human.
– It was a little girl, the mother-in-law replied.
Foucault then took action. He immediately rushed from the hotel to the beach and straight into the water. With the physics of a hockey player, he quickly swims to the victim at the mercy of the water.
– While swimming in the waves I saw a girl floating ten meters in front of me. I thought I had to save the drowned person, Foucault commented on the NHL website.
However, the story has a happy ending. Foucault was rescued from the waves of the girl and taken to the beach with another person who swam for help. After that, the coast guard started the resuscitation activities, getting the girl to work.
Understandably, the crying and startled child was taken to the hospital, from which, however, he was quickly repatriated fully recovered. Everyone overcame the frightening situation in the end with great fright.
Foucault doesn’t want to make himself a hero. He comments that he acted instinctively in the situation.
– It’s a bit like hockey. If a teammate is in trouble, he or she will be helped. Someone on the beach was in trouble, and I wanted to help him.