WEBVTT 00:02.213 --> 00:05.296 (light guitar music) 00:12.492 --> 00:16.659 ^- He was up inside the kayak and wedged his arms in 00:17.143 --> 00:18.992 ^to hold him inside the kayak so that 00:18.992 --> 00:21.742 ^if he passed out he wouldn't die, 00:22.883 --> 00:24.814 with the hope that somebody would come 00:24.814 --> 00:26.747 and take a look at his boat. 00:26.747 --> 00:29.830 (light guitar music) 00:41.039 --> 00:43.613 We got a call from the station saying that 00:43.613 --> 00:46.510 there was a report of an overturned kayak. 00:46.510 --> 00:47.820 ^- At first we didn't know if there was anyone 00:47.820 --> 00:49.853 ^associated with that kayak. 00:49.853 --> 00:51.211 ^We just thought it might have been 00:51.211 --> 00:53.628 ^a kayak that came from shore. 00:54.120 --> 00:57.372 But as we responded to the call and pulled up to the kayak 00:57.372 --> 01:00.175 we noticed that there was somebody in the water. 01:00.175 --> 01:02.053 - I saw something black that looked like 01:02.053 --> 01:04.849 it might have been a wet suit or a spray skirt 01:04.849 --> 01:07.570 from a kayak just kind of floating. 01:07.570 --> 01:09.737 It just didn't feel right. 01:10.198 --> 01:13.753 We got up alongside and I threw my head over 01:13.753 --> 01:16.177 and I looked down and I just saw a person 01:16.177 --> 01:18.260 who was barely conscious. 01:18.281 --> 01:20.713 At that point it immediately went from just something 01:20.713 --> 01:24.001 simple and routine to a life or death situation. 01:24.001 --> 01:25.939 - [Nick] Once we made it to the kayaker, 01:25.939 --> 01:29.140 it was very time sensitive and we had to 01:29.140 --> 01:31.157 get him on board as quickly as possible 01:31.157 --> 01:34.716 and to shore to be transported to the hospital. 01:34.716 --> 01:36.158 - He was severely hypothermic, 01:36.158 --> 01:39.382 so one of the first things that you want to do 01:39.382 --> 01:42.459 with somebody who's hypothermic is remove the wet clothing 01:42.459 --> 01:46.626 and get him dry clothing and dry blankets on top of them. 01:47.129 --> 01:49.573 We actually kind of sandwiched our bodies 01:49.573 --> 01:51.438 next to him and threw the blankets 01:51.438 --> 01:53.174 over the top of us to try to give him 01:53.174 --> 01:54.364 some of our warmth. 01:54.364 --> 01:57.580 I got to watch somebody go from being just about dead 01:57.580 --> 01:59.743 to alive, and I was actually able to 01:59.743 --> 02:02.531 speak with him on the phone only two hours later 02:02.531 --> 02:03.864 in the hospital. 02:05.040 --> 02:07.268 You want to have on at least some kind 02:07.268 --> 02:09.256 of a wet suit or a dry suit, 02:09.256 --> 02:12.560 even if it's just a coat with a spray skirt or something, 02:12.560 --> 02:14.824 because if you do go into that water, 02:14.824 --> 02:16.106 the first thing that's going to happen is 02:16.106 --> 02:17.471 all that blood in your extremities 02:17.471 --> 02:19.159 is going to rush straight to your core, 02:19.159 --> 02:20.916 which means that you're not going to have 02:20.916 --> 02:24.135 the ability to swim like you normally would. 02:24.135 --> 02:26.645 I, myself, I consider myself a pretty good swimmer, 02:26.645 --> 02:28.599 but I still, if I'm going to go out on a day, 02:28.599 --> 02:30.395 even a flat day like today, 02:30.395 --> 02:33.953 I'm still going to wear a wetsuit, a 6-mm wetsuit, 02:33.953 --> 02:36.120 and a life jacket as well. 02:36.793 --> 02:38.229 Not only that, but if you go over 02:38.229 --> 02:40.764 and you were to hit your head on the kayak 02:40.764 --> 02:42.553 or something and go unconscious, 02:42.553 --> 02:44.629 doesn't matter who you are or how good of a swimmer you are, 02:44.629 --> 02:46.909 Michael Phelps could still drown if he's unconscious. 02:46.909 --> 02:50.076 (light guitar music)