was "pleasantly surprised'' yesterday to hear that the toddler is on the road to recovery.

P.c. Andrew Robinson administered cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the two-year-old after she was pulled unconscious from a swimming pool at The Spinning Wheel on Court Street.

Chantia wandered into the club's pool area with a playmate shortly after 11 a.m. and fell backwards into a jacuzzi beside the main pool.

The 28-year-old officer was on patrol "on the other side'' of Hamilton when he received the emergency call and rushed to the scene.

P.c. Robinson said he was directed inside the club where he found Chantia lying on her back with two men attempting to revive her. One was performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and the other pressing on her chest.

"I didn't know how long she had been under water, but with her bluish (skin) colour, I felt it must have been a reasonable length of time,'' P.c. Robinson recalled. "I was really doubting her chances.'' The officer said Chantia had no pulse and was not breathing when he examined her. He immediately began CPR, and continued until medical personnel arrived and took over.

"It seemed like an eternity,'' P.c. Robinson said of the wait for the ambulance. "But it was probably only about three minutes,'' He said Chantia's mother, Ms Beverly Swann, "did quite well'' under the circumstances, remaining right next to her daughter and calmly encouraging him.

Chantia was still not breathing when the ambulance arrived, he said. The little girl spent several days in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

She was transferred to the children's ward on Tuesday, where she continues to recover.

"I was really pleasantly surprised to hear she was talking,'' said P.c.

Robinson, adding that "it would be nice'' to meet Chantia sometime.

The Hull, England, native said he learned CPR as a part of his Police training in Britain. He served on that Police force for eight years before coming to Bermuda in 1991.

Although he has not used his CPR skills in an emergency situation for quite some time, P.c. Robinson said the procedure came back to him automatically without a single thought.

P.c. Robinson, who resides in Pembroke with his wife, said last week's incident was the first time he had ever administered CPR on a child.

P.c. Andrew Robinson.