{"id":574558,"date":"2025-11-16T17:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574558\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T17:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:49:13","slug":"british-teenager-fighting-for-life-after-nearly-drowning-during-school-trip-to-northern-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574558\/","title":{"rendered":"British teenager fighting for life after nearly drowning during school trip to northern Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A BRITISH teenager is in a critical condition after getting into difficulty while swimming at sea during a school trip to northern Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 14-year-old girl was rushed to hospital in Lloret de Mar, Catalunya on Saturday morning after being pulled from the water by a teacher and two police officers who jumped in to help.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster is understood to have been playing with friends in choppy waters in the popular Costa Brava resort before a powerful wave swept her out to sea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theolivepress.es\/spain-news\/2025\/07\/31\/pictured-heartbreaking-final-photo-of-brit-brother-and-sister-aged-11-and-13-who-drowned-off-spains-catalunya-coast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PICTURED: Heartbreaking final photo of Brit brother and sister, aged 11 and 13, who drowned off Spain\u2019s Catalunya coast\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Lloret-de-Mar-1-490x264.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-366499\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>The incident occurred during a school trip to the popular Costa Brava resort of Lloret de Mar. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the scene after the alarm was raised at around 11.30am local time, including paramedics, local police, officers from the Mossos d\u2019Esquadra and the fire service.<\/p>\n<p>One of the police officers who leapt in to save the youngster had to be treated for hypothermia.<\/p>\n<p>One witness said: \u201cI was able to see the whole scene from the balcony of my flat opposite the beach [\u2026] They managed to rescue the young girl and performed CPR, which saved her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, she will not suffer any lasting effects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The young victim has been admitted to an intensive care unit at Josep Trueta Hospital in Girona.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theolivepress.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain News<\/a> from The Olive Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A BRITISH teenager is in a critical condition after getting into difficulty while swimming at sea during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[7706,143383,160557,13652,2000,299,182189,18104,8626,104,182190,18106],"class_list":{"0":"post-574558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-catalonia","9":"tag-catalunya","10":"tag-costa-brava","11":"tag-drowning","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-lloret-de-mar","15":"tag-news-spain","16":"tag-newspaper","17":"tag-spain","18":"tag-spain-school-trip","19":"tag-the-olive-press"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}