Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Blaine Gabbert used jet skis to help rescue the occupants of a helicopter after it crash landed in the water on Thursday, he said in a press conference on Friday
He and his two brothers, Tyler and Brett, were jetskiing in Hillsborough Bay, Florida when he said they heard “a faint noise.” “We turned around… and I just remember looking to the west and seeing – it almost looked like a crew boat that had broken up in the water into about four pieces – and I vaguely remember seeing like two yellow lifejackets,” Gabbert said. Once he reached the site, Gabbert said he realized that it was a helicopter in the water and expected the “worst case scenario.
We raced over there, the youngest kid had just come up and he said he was pinned in there and I asked if anyone else was trapped,” Gabbert said, recalling later in the press conference that the family were all visibly shaken up and covered in oil from the crash landing. “Then I called 911, tried to remain as calm as possible…I was just right place, right time.