Calgary Woman Risks Life to Save Montreal Couple from Drowning in Cancun CTVNews
go to original January 6, 2015

A Calgary mother is being called a hero after she was the only person to swim out and rescue a Montreal couple from drowning in Mexico.

Tamara Loiselle was taking an early-morning walk on a beach in Cancun in late December, when she noticed a couple struggling a few hundred feet out in the water. Security guards at a nearby condo grabbed a rope and life preserver but only Loiselle was willing to dive into the water to save the two.

"Those people were probably going to drown if I didn't go in," she told CTV Calgary. "So they grabbed the rope and put it around my waist, and they gave me a life preserver and I went into the water."

The 42-year-old single mother of two relied on her strong swimming skills to battle the huge waves as she swam out to the couple.

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