@LuckyGuy That is what the paramedics said when they finally got there. We worked easily 5 minutes on that guy. He was in intensive care for a few days because of 3rd degree burns in his lungs. He is very lucky to be alive.
What was really sad though is the senior lifeguard in the tower chair by the deep end where this happened panicked. I saw her climb down from the chair and was walking around the chair taking her rings off one by one and I thought WTH is she doing and then I saw my supervisor come charging out of the office and dove to the bottom and pulled this guy up to the surface. He was so out of breath and why I got the honors to do the mouth to mouth. No one knew how long he was down there. Had to be pretty long to have his heart stop beating.
Thankfully the kid made a full recovery.