Florida man and his dog get amazing 'rescue selfie' as Coast Guard arrives overhead

[douglas9]

A Florida man’s decision to take his sailboat and his dog into Hurricane Helene ended with a mid-ocean rescue, but he got a heck of a selfie out of it.

Coast Guard officials in Florida released a remarkable mid-hurricane photo on Friday of a man and his dog in the middle of Hurricane Helene as a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter hovers overhead with its cabin door open, indicating the helicopter’s crew is maneuvering toward his rescue.

Though the photo looks like a traditional ‘selfie,’ officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that it is a video frame from the helmet cam of a Coast Guard rescue swimmer who reached the man in the water. In the full video released by the Coast Guard, the man and dog are still on their boat when a Coast Guard crewman arrives. They briefly jump into the water — the dog somewhat reluctantly — and swim with the Coast Guard swimmer to the helicopter’s hoist cable.



https://taskandpurpose.com/news/florida-rescue-selfie-hurricane-helene/

[Joinfortmill]

1. Karma was good to this asshole. Glad the dog & Coast Guard are safe.

[2naSalit]

2. Sounds like he was...

Well on his way to waters in the south, trying to avoid the storm. The problem being that the storm grew so fast and large that he was caught up in it when he might otherwise have made it safely outside the storm perimeter.