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Tuesday 17 August 2021
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Heroes
Cody Pickles, Tim Smith, Hayden Swain, Graham Kerrigan, Mark Spencer and Andy Register at the Marlborough College Old Boys Squash Club. Photo: Matt Brown.
Matt Brown Reporter
matt@marlboroughmedia.co.nz
A game of squash almost turned deadly for a man who suffered a cardiac arrest and stopped breathing for six minutes. Graham Kerrigan, 62, from Blenheim almost died at the
squash club at Marlborough Boys’ College on 5 August. But his quick-thinking mates performed CPR until St John paramedics arrived and helped save his life. “It was their quick thinking – they’re heroes,” Graham says. The captain of the club, Graham says he had just played 17-year-
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old Andy Register and was exhausted. “I went outside to catch some air – I was lucky it didn’t happen then,” he says. Graham won that game, but refereeing the next game on court three, he began to feel dizzy. “My vision started to go, and I said, I’m going to faint. That’s all
I remember,” Graham says. Andy caught Graham as he collapsed, and one of the players, Cody Pickles called for help. Graham credits his survival to Marlborough College Old Boys Squash Club members Mark Spencer, Hayden Swain and Tim Smith – and St John paramedics Ben Parsons and
Tracy McCowan. “They were all amazing.” The three men took turns performing CPR until the paramedics arrived. Hayden, who works at Wairau River, says it was hard, tiring work.
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