JACKSONVILLE, FL. (THECOUNT) — The prayers of a pair of in Jacksonville, Florida high schoolers were literally answered after they were washed out to sea — and then miraculously saved by a boat named “Amen.”
Heather Brown and Tyler Smith were visiting Vilano Beach with a group of friends When they decided to go for a swim.
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Brown and Smith suddenly became caught up in a current and were pulled out into the open ocean.
“By the time we were trying to go back, it kept pushing us out,” Heather said.
The pair treaded water for more than an hour and a half when they finally saw a boat that was approximately 200 yards away.
The tried teens screamed and waved their hands at the distant boat and somehow managed to get the attention of the captain.
Eric Wagner, the captain of Amen, told reporters his vessel was “the only one out there,” adding that boats normally don’t frequent the area from where the teen’s were rescued.
“We were the only boat there,” Mr Wagner said. “It was a day that only the fishing boats were going out and they go straight out to the Gulf Stream. They don’t go up and down the coast, so I don’t think any boats would have found them,” reported NZherald.
Wagner said that when he told the teens the name of his boat they broke down, “that’s when they started to cry.”
Geo quick facts: Vilano Beach is an unincorporated community in St. Johns County, Florida, United States. It is listed as the Villano Beach census-designated place by the U.S. Census Bureau. The population was 2,678 at the 2010 census – Wikipedia.