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Florida: Heart Stopping Video Shows Deputy's Rush to Save an Elderly Man Clinging to His Capsized Boat for Dear Life

Will Maule : Oct 11, 2018  Faithwire.com

He'd "been holding on all night."

airlift(Volusia Co., Florida) [Faithwire.com] Heart-racing footage captured the dramatic rescue of a man who spent all night clinging to his upturned boat after it capsized on a Florida lake. (Image: Volusia Co. Sheriff-Twitter/via Faithwire)

According to The Volusia County Sheriff's Office in DeLand, two men headed out onto Lake Monroe for a fishing trip Monday. But by early Tuesday morning, they had not been heard from and were reported missing. When the authorities launched a search for the pair, they were shocked to discover one of the men, clinging to the hull of his upturned vessel.

In the dramatic footage posted to the Sheriff's Office Twitter account, a group can be seen approaching the man and his half-sunken boat. Then, sensing the man's fatigue and the immediate danger he was in, a fully-uniformed deputy can be seen leaping into the water and swimming over to the exhausted boatsman. The police officer hands the man a lifejacket before pulling him to the rescue boat and helping him aboard... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here.

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