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Friday, February 7, 2025
On Tuesday this happened. Man rescued from Boat “spinning out of control.” Lake Dias in De Leon Springs in Florida. This is located north of Orlando. Volusia County Sheriff’s Office who said this.
Lake Dias is 740-acres.
A patrol boat spotted it, Boat “spinning out of control,” and sent out a distress signal.
“I got out of my unit, I walked up to the dock, I could not see nobody in the boat whatsoever,” volunteer patrolman Charlie McCray said, who said he saw the boat “spinning around in the middle.”
He called it in, and Marine Unit and Volusia County Fire Rescue arrived.
It was quickly apparent that the occupant of the boat was unresponsive and action was necessary.
They tried several different approaches to try to stop the boat, but to no avail.
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Senior deputy Matt Seltzer said rescuers first tried to use the larger Marine Unit boat to push the speedboat and stop it, but found themselves getting too close to shore. Then, the unit tried to use the boat’s wake to push the smaller boat closer to the shoreline so that it could be disabled without causing damage to the larger boat. Neither option worked — so the responding officers tried a riskier strategy. The sheriff’s boat was brought as close as possible to the moving speedboat. In the video, Kyp can be seen leaping into the smaller boat and quickly ducking under some growth at the edge of the water, then stopping the boat before it can collide with tree branches. He conducted a wellness check on the unresponsive man.
Volusia County Fire Rescue Acting Division Chief and Technical Rescue Deputy Team Leader John Kyp leaped onto the boat. He was then able to regain control of the vehicle and subsequently get the unconscious man to Marine Unit craft, then to shore where he recieved treatment from EMS services.
The occupant’s loss of consciousness was apparently due to a medical emergency, and he was relocated to a nearby hospital. Officials said the man was expected to make a full recovery.
The man was not identified.
