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ST. GEORGE — Doing flips is part of what earned Ryan Bean over 13,000 followers on Instagram, but when he attempted a flip into a pool in St. George Saturday, it didn’t go as planned.
Ryan, a 15-year-old who attends Desert Hills High School, was playing at a private pool Saturday with his 14-year-old friend Tyson Parker. As he went down a slide, Ryan tried to do a backflip into the pool, but he hit his head on the rock and sank under the water. Tyson filmed the entire incident on a cellphone.
“I didn’t know that he had hit his head; I thought he was just going to pop up out of the water, but he didn’t, so just kept filming,” Tyson told St. George News.
Tyson touched Ryan as he was under the water, but when he still wasn’t responding, Tyson pulled his friend out of the pool. Ryan had been unconscious and submerged for nearly 40 seconds. Ryan’s mother Laura Bean later found out that he had suffered a severe concussion when he hit his head on the slide.
“I was so scared,” Tyson said. “When I brought him up, his face was purple, so I didn’t really know what to do.”
Once he was out of the pool, Ryan became conscious after a few moments and started spitting out water and blood, Tyson said.
Tyson called for some others to help hoist Ryan into a chair before calling his parents.
Read the full article at St. George News.
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