BS Summary: This video contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Framing Effect, and Halo Effect, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 61.1% saturation with 181 hits. Analysis detected 1,008 faulty-reasoning hits from 296 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 87.4% and a BS Rank of 93% (1,693 of 22,830 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 92.60% of the video peer group.
We're hearing for the first time from that 16-year-old lifeguard seen in this now viral video rescuing a boy off California's Santa Cruz coast. Ryder
Williams says he was at the waterline when he saw a child lose his footing in ankle deep water. I radioed in through my radio and sunglasses at the base of my tower as I ran toward the kid. That's where the heartstoppping video begins.
You can see for two long minutes Williams holding on to the limp 10-year-old. violent waves crashing into them, forcing them underwater, but Williams never letting go.
He credits his fellow lifeguard Aaron Bonan for his help, adding that when bystanders also jumped in, he yelled at them to get back to shore.
>> What does it mean to you that these young men saved your son's life?
>> It means everything to me. My children mean the world to me. That's why I'm just eternally and forever grateful.
Anything I can do for them, I owe them my life.
Sumi Rice says the boy Williams saved is his son Nathaniel, who was on vacation with his mother's family in California.
He says he was shocked when he learned Williams is only 16.
>> He's a child himself. You know, he's only 6 years older than my son. For him to take that kind of risk and show that kind of courage and bravery speaks volumes about his character.
volumes about his character. >> Tonight, as accolades pour in for Williams, including an invite to the White House by President Trump, the teen humbly responding, "This is my job and I
love what I do. I'm thankful to my fellow lifeguards who perform rescues just like this every
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