Dylan Gartenmayer has been diving and spearfishing along the Florida coast since he was 10. That experience helped him survive a frightening ordeal that left him stranded at sea for hours.
The 21-year-old was free diving at the Western Sambo Reef near Key West Thursday afternoon when a strong current swept him away from his boat. By the time he resurfaced, the current had pulled him so far away that his two friends never saw him come back up. He soon disappeared from view, his cousin Priscilla Gartenmayer told CNN. His friends scoured the choppy waters for half an hour, then called the Coast Guard to help in the search.
It was horrible – the worst feeling I’ve ever felt,” she said. The family plugged in the coordinates of the location where Dylan was last seen and dashed that way at high speed. The light was fading, and they didn’t have much time before darkness would make their rescue effort more difficult. “Everything was silent on the boat until the flashlight hit him and he put his hands up – we finally knew he was OK,” Priscilla Gartenmayer said.
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