Luis Soto from Beach Time Max, our beach concession company, was featured in the Miami Herald this weekend for his heroic rescue of a rip tide victim last Friday on Surfside Beach.
Luis states he saw the woman struggling in the water and quickly reacted grabbing a boogie board from one of the kids laying out by the water and jumped right in to save her. He says it took a while to get back in since the current was so strong but he managed to be released from the rip tide and swam with the woman in tow to shore where he was met by Beach Rescue and they took the woman to the hospital.
Great job Luis, you are definitely a hero!
Here's the article.
SURFSIDE, Fla. (WSVN) --
A worker is being hailed a hero after he saved a woman in distress. The struggling swimmer was unable to keep her head above water near 95th Street and Collins Avenue Thursday. That's when a Good Samaritan, who was selling umbrellas nearby, grabbed a boogie board and jumped in the ocean to save her. "I took off my shoes and socks and went right in, and I said please relax," said Luis Soto. The woman was brought to shore exhausted but otherwise OK.
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