An eight-year-old boy was floating in the water at a North Carolina beach, when suddenly the wind picked up. His family was paying attention, but that didn't matter when he was quickly carried out to sea. The child was visiting Oak Island from Ohio and according to Oak Island Water Rescue, he was being adequately supervised, but wind quickly took him and his unicorn float over a half a mile away.
One minute the kid was right there, the next, the float was beyond the breakers and too far for anyone to reach to save him. Rescue Chief Tony Young says the child did the right thing by staying on the float instead of trying to swim all the way back and they had a boat in the water 15 minutes after the call for help came in. Both the boy and the unicorn float made it back to shore safely.
“Handing that little kid back to his mom after we brought him in from way out in the ocean on that float was payment enough for all of us,” Young says.
Note to self: Stay on the float, don't swim back to shore.....enjoy the ride to your new vacation destination!