For a few moments, no one noticed as he drifted away from the main competition area. About that time, Hira Edmonds, 25, a lifeguard and senior instructor for a surf­safety company, was teaching 14 other lifeguards the finer points of emergency rescue on the second floor of a building overlooking New Brighton Beach. Edmonds had watched dozens of suffers ride the waves that day. As he glanced out of the window, he saw someone in a wet suit facedown in the water. “It doesn't take much to realize someone's in trouble，” says Edmonds. “Lifeguards are never really off duty.” Edmonds called the team, grabbed first aid equipment, and rushed down to the water. The lifeguards dragged Tuhikarama, 47 and a father of two, to the beach. More than a dozen rescuers took turns pumping oxygen and pressing his chest to start his breathing again. For nearly an hour—far longer than a single lifeguard would have been able to continue the lifesaving technique—the team continued all these. An ambulance finally arrived and took Tuhikarama to the hospital, where he spent a week unconscious in Intensive Care Unit(ICU) while his brain and heart healed.

　　A month after he recovered, Tuhikarama was reunited with six of the teenage lifeguards who saved him. “Being spotted by a group of lifeguards was the only thing that saved me，” he says. “I've been given a second chance.”

　　1．What was James Tuhikarama doing when he had a heart attack?

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