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Boy, 7, swims for an hour to save family after boating mishap
Posted on 06/03/2021 8:02:16 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A 7-year-old Florida boy is being hailed as a hero for saving his family after a boating accident. His father says they wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for him.
Chase Poust, 7, saved himself and his family Friday night when he, his 4-year-old sister and his dad went out on a boat to fish on St. Johns River. He and his sister Abigail swam by the boat while it was anchored.
“The current was so strong that my sister – she usually hangs out at the back of the boat – and she let go. So, I let go of the boat and grabbed her, and then, I was stuck,” Chase said.
Father Steven Poust says he jumped out of the boat to save his kids. Abigail had a life jacket on and floated along with the current as her father tried to grab her. He told Chase to swim to shore.
“I told them both I loved them because I wasn’t sure what’s going to happen. I tried to stick with her as long as I could… I wore myself out, and she drifted away from me,” Poust said.
But Chase kept swimming to shore. He says he would doggie paddle then float on his back when he got tired.
“The current was going the opposite way of going to the boat and the shore, so it was very hard to swim that way,” Chase said.
After an hour of swimming, Chase made it to shore, ran to the nearest home and knocked on the door for help.
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I don’t think I would swim in that. The current can be quite strong and when I was a kid I caught more freaky looking fish in that river than any river I ever fished.
Dude is a Blessed moron.
Amazing story, glad it had a good outcome. Hopefully some lessons were learned.
sleeping on the couch forever
Great story.
But, how huge does a River have to be to swim for an hour....even accounting for upstream and child tiredness?
Is this the Mississippi or Atlantic Ocean?
I think I would have just turned the boat around and gotten the kids.
When your kid does something stupid, you’re so thankful
they are okay, that you forget the thing they did, and may
or may not mention it later.
I kind of feel the same way here. I don’t like that they
got into this situation, but I am thankful they are all
okay.
Going by my own experience, and fessing up, I think we all
do utterly stupid things at times. I’m glad not all mine
became public, and I’ll cut this guy some slack for his
infraction here.
At least there’s ONE ‘Florida Kid’ that WON’T grow up to become, ‘Florida Man!’ ;)
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=St.+Johns+River&atb=v1-1&iax=images&ia=images
It’s pretty big but I’m thinking the kid swam upstream to where he knew there was something other than woods or swamp on the shore. Probably swam until he saw lights.
and the dad’s a dumbass
Not so sure. He made sure they had life vests on. Good for him.
If you want stupid, you should’ve read about the idiot sire who took his son on a drive-by mock shooting with a paintball gun.
Also FloriDUH, near Miami.
Son did not have to have one so did not.
You’re not making sense
Just looking at Google maps, it looks like the widest part of it (south of Jacksonville) is wider than the widest part of the Mississippi.
Yeah, that sounds brilliant. /s NOT!
Children over 5 do not legally need one.
Re-reading I see they actually do not mention if the boy had a vest. Just the law. Only mention is that the girl had a vest.
So my post may not have been right....but it might not be wrong either.
My only comment: If you have kids, then teach them to swim as early as possible.
True story, I’ll make it short. Two gangbangers pull up in front of building stoop occupied by several members of their rivals. They jump out each thinking the other one had a gun. They got the crap beat out of them. A week later they come back, driver has a gun, they pull up curbside, rivals are on the stoop. The driver starts letting loose and “busting caps” and shoots his passenger three times in the head. Nobody on the stoop got hit. They are that dumb.
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