The quick action of two Bermudians averted what could have been a waterside tragedy by saving the life of a three-year-old boy who nearly drowned.Eyewitnesses said the child was not breathing when he was pulled from the water at Admiralty House Beach, Pembroke, yesterday afternoon. The boy was inshore with quite a few young toddlers accompanied by adults when the tide was rising. The boy’s parents, who are visitors to the Island, were at the beach.One woman said a man in his 40s “snatched the child out of the water when child noticed him under the water”.“I saw him running up the embankment with the child who was nearly blue, his head was flopped back and he wasn’t breathing. The man put the child down to do CPR and the boy regurgitated quite a bit of water,” she said.Another woman who asked not to be named said she assisted and “pushed down on the child’s stomach while the man was doing CPR”. “He was foaming from the mouth, at first he wasn’t breathing.“When he started breathing again the man picked him up and started running up the embankment with the child to meet the ambulance,” she said. “The child’s parents were there, they were panicked at one stage because the boy stopped breathing again at the top of the hill.“He didn’t have a pulse so the man started CPR again to revive him and by that time the ambulance had arrived. I just happened to be there when all of this happened, I didn’t panic; I’ve seen this before,” she added.The woman recalled how she assisted an elderly man who lost his life while swimming at Pontoons about three years ago. “I’m sorry that he lost his life and I didn’t want to ever see that happen again,” she said.“I do feel that the ambulance should have gotten here sooner, although they arrived in less than ten minutes,” she added.When contacted by The Royal Gazette a hospital spokeswoman said the child was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit where he is listed in stable condition. “He is being kept in hospital for observation,” she said.Meanwhile the police spokesman issued a big thank you to the two members of the public who administered “life saving CPR” to the boy.