CBC: Did you hear Gordon Giesbrecht saved someone’s life?

The story by CBC credits TV personality Rick Mercer, but it’s a segment featuring U of M professor Gordon Giesbrecht that saved the person’s life, the Rick Mercer Report was just the medium.

The story

As the CBC reports:

Natalie and James Millar, along with their 2½-year old son, were driving home to Regina from vacation Aug. 8 when their sport utility vehicle went off the highway and into about two metres of water. Almost immediately, it started to sink….

However, she had previously watched a YouTube video of the Rick Mercer Report from 2010 where Mercer showed how to escape from a sinking car.

In that segment, Mercer and University of Manitoba cold weather researcher Gordon Giesbrecht — a.k.a. Dr. Popsicle — showed how a $10 window-punch gadget could save the day in such emergencies.

Giesbrecht said if it happens, people need to quickly free themselves from their seatbelts, open a window, grab their children and then get out.

The segment