LAS VEGAS -- Patrick and Heather White have spent two weeks grieving the death of their son Dayne.

They will never overcome their heartbreak, but are hoping they can save other parents from experiencing what they’ve lived through.

Thursday morning, the Las Vegas couple stood before reporters and described the day the 2-year-old wandered into the family pool and drowned.

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“I can tell you every minute of that morning, from the time he got up. Every second of that day,” Patrick White said as he tried to fight back tears.

Dayne White had been eating breakfast and was out of his parents’ sight for what Patrick described as “seconds.” The couple searched the house, but it was a neighbor who spotted Dayne in the pool.

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“The poor 10-year-old, Isaac, said ‘He’s in the pool’ and I ran out there and grabbed my baby from him and automatically started performing CPR,” said the boy’s father, who estimated it was a mere 3 minutes between the time he was taking a bite out of the boy’s donut to the time he was pulled from the pool.

By releasing photos of their son and making their story public, the White’s have taken an unusual step for parents who have lost a child to a drowning. But they are not under suspicion, and stood side by side with police urging other couple’s to learn something from their story.

“This is the death you don’t hear. The splashing screams and cries we never hear,” said Metro Police Lt. Ray Steiber.

Steiber backed up his statement with statistics. There have been six drownings this year, and police responded to three near drownings Wednesday.

All three involved children, Steiber said.

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With the exception of her tears, Heather White stayed silent for much of Thursday’s news conference. But she stepped forward briefly to offer a message for parents.

“Whatever bad things have happened here, we want as much good as we can to come out of it,” she said.