A man in Gosport, UK, has been rescued from the sea after a dog spotted him struggling and barked non-stop to alert its owner. The man, in his mid-50s, fell from a tender, which is a small transport boat, near Royal Clarence Marina in Gosport on Saturday evening. Due to stormy conditions and a strong tide, he was swept away 300m (985ft) towards Millennium Bridge. The dog walker rang 999 after her pet would not stop barking near the bridge, alerting her to his calls for help.
She said Poppy, a black cockapoo “just suddenly started barking, when she stopped I could hear somebody shouting for help so I called the coastguard. My husband had a flashlight and shone it out but we couldn’t see anything—we could just hear him calling.” She said when the coastguard arrived: “They asked us to keep the torch shining and they went out looking for him.”
The man, found clinging to a post in the frigid water, was pulled onto a rescue boat and treated for hypothermia(体温过低). “He was incredibly lucky. Being in the water for 30 minutes at this time of year, in a storm force wind with the sea temperature as it is, he was very lucky to survive,” said James, one of the rescuers. “He was swept away from the tender and left clinging to the pile—if the dog walker hadn’t raised the alarm the consequences could have been very different.”
The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous said: “We were just so relieved to hear he had been rescued.” It was just fortunate that we were there at that time. How frightened he must have been.” She added that after returning home Poppy was “spoilt with treats—and we’ve started calling her Lassie!”
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