Capsized boat 'Good Samaritan' speaks
 | Reported by: Tim Malloy Email: tmalloy@wptv.com Photographer: Blain Logan Last Update: 5/28 7:01 am |
 BOCA RATON, FL -- "I wasn't going out, it was too rough" Dr. Xavier Escobar grew up surfing off the Boca jetty. His decision to take out a friend's Sea Doo on Memorial Day at six in the evening was on impulse. When he swung out of the channel into the open sea, he heard screams. "They were in the middle of the break, with white water all around them." Escobar found himself in the middle of a frantic fight for life. Six people were thrashing in the Atlantic, their boat overturned. They were drowning in a rip tide a hundred yards offshore. Escobar swung the Sea Doo around and plucked a young boy who was gripping the bow of the violently heaving boat. "I went over to pick him up. He didn't respond. I yelled at him and pulled him in. He said his family was out there." By then the Coast Guard and Boca's Marine unit were circling the victims and pulling them from the water. Escobar went back out. "They looked at us like we were angels,” says Escobar. All survived. Two were hospitalized. http://www.wptv.com/news/local |
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