Caught on camera: Good Samaritans save a group of men from the waters after their boat capsizes
A boat crew headed out on the water Monday in Sea Girt, New Jersey, but instead of reeling in Fluke fish, they ended up saving four people from a sinking boat that was quickly taking on water.
Video of the water rescue caught on Victor Azrak’s cellphone shows others aboard a boat named Gemini pulling a man from the water off the Jersey Shore.
"Maybe a couple hundred feet away I see guys screaming on the back of their boat waving their arms, and I see the back transom of their boat just going down into the water and they're screaming,” Joey Cabasso, the Gemini’s owner and one of the rescuers, told News 12 New Jersey.
Also aboard the Gemini, which was about three miles offshore — near the Sea Girt Reef — when the rescue went down, was Capt. Chris Davidson and others.
"I screamed 'Chris the boat is going down. We jump into action and we grab our life vests. We saw they didn't have any life vests. They were already in the water. It was like a minute later, that boat just went down so quick,” Cabasso said, later adding that he had "never seen something happen so quick."
The Gemini crew was able to rescue all four men in under three minutes. State police brought the rescued individuals to shore.
Cabasso said he didn’t get the names of the people the Gemini crew rescued on Monday, but one of the men who was rescued could be heard in the video thanking the captain.
One of the men rescued, in the video, can also be heard saying that those who were rescued had been out fishing “all day” when they started rapidly taking on water.
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