JUST LIKE THEY TEACH YOU TO DO IN THE RED CROSS COURSE: ‘Human Chain’ Saves Boy, 12, From Drowning. “A 12-year-old New Zealand boy, who was swept out to sea by rough waters, was rescued by beachgoers after they formed a human chain to pull the boy back to the shore. . . . The dramatic video of the rescue shows more than a dozen people holding hands from the beach into the whitecap waves to bring the two to safety.”