An amazing story has quickly gone viral around the world. A family dedicated to the activity of diving and spearfishing got a big scare when they reported to the authorities that Dylan Gartenmayer, 22, disappeared for several hours at sea, after being swept away by a current in the Gulf of Mexico, very close to the coast of Florida.
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The distressing rescue has become very popular on the TikTok social network, where the entire search process at sea was shown.
“I had a lot of bait floating around me and everything (…) I knew there were big fish eating those baits and there were sharks that were going to be right after them. ANDI was ready to fight all night, but I’m glad I didn’t have to.”explained the lost young man.
shipwrecked at sea
The young man told the media ‘NBC 6’, that he was practicing free diving while two of his friends watched him from the surface and in the safety boat. Around 4 in the afternoon the water conditions worsened, so Dylan decided to go to the mainland.
However, by the time he decided to reach the surface an underwater current made him lose his spatial reference and dragged him out to sea: “I ran outside and that’s where it all started to happen.”
He said that it was about 45 meters deep. The current kept him holding his breath for two minutes until he managed to surface admiles away.
“They were mainly looking down, thinking that I had passed out from lack of oxygen,” he said. Furthermore, she mentioned that she swam for over a kilometer until she found a buoy that marked the distance and depth in relation to the coast.
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The rescue
Tabitha Gertenmayer, mother of the young diver, narrated what went through her head when she found out that her son was missing: “We received a call from my ex-husband (…) ‘Tab, something is wrong with Dylan. They haven’t seen him in an hour.’ From that moment on, this feeling of anguish invaded me, just like that, I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t talk,” she said.
In several videos that are already going around the internet, the family boat can be seen leaving the coast at full speed heading out to sea to look for the young man. The guard coastal presto support for air and sea until they located the diver floating very close to the buoy.
“I could see the Coast Guard in the distance to the west of me. I could see its blue lights, the helicopter moving, making its grid pattern (…) I was facing west looking at the Coast Guard, and I could hear a boat whizzing by behind me,” Dylan said.
The meeting with his relatives has moved millions of Internet users who congratulate the family for allowing yourself to find your loved one safe and sound in the vastness of the ocean; The recording already has more than 32 million views and more than 4 million “likes”.
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