Fishermen go out on the water hoping to find some animals swimming in the water, but when a group of fishermen spotted this animal swimming six miles off shore, they knew something wasn’t right.
Rob Kurdy was out on the boat with his friends on the Long Island Sound one afternoon when they spotted something bobbing in the water from a distance. As they got closer, however, they realized the animal wasn’t a fish or shark, but was actually a deer.
The deer was clearly struggling in the 58-degree water, and they knew there was no way the animal would make it back to shore, nevermind a few more minutes. “You could see it shivering. It’s barely staying afloat,” Kurdy said. “It’s kind of just going in circles.”
The group decided to forget about their fishing trip, and got to work saving the drowning animal. “He actually got a piece of rope and was able to stick the rope around the antlers real gently and corral the deer towards the boat,” Kurdy said. “We used one of the boat cleats to tie it to him and make sure he was comfortable and we weren’t pulling on him too hard.”
The group towed the animal as gently as possible to land, but the boat couldn’t get close enough to shore so Kurdy put a lifejacket on, jumped in the water, and swam the deer the rest of the way to shore.
“It’s a life, and I’m not going to let him drown,” Kurdy said. “He was out in the middle of nowhere shivering and freezing, so we all said we just can’t let it drown. It was just the right thing to do.”
They immediately wrapped the shivering deer in towels and blankets, and after a few hours, the animal warmed up enough and walked off on his own.
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Fishermen Rescue Drowning Dear 6 Miles Off Shore is an article from: LifeDaily