Clock: Fisherman uses drone to help girls

Pensacola, Fla. – – A fisherman had the idea of ​​using his drone to save a swimmer that has to struggle in a rip flow off the Florida coast.

The background story:

According to Fox 10, Andrew Smith said that he was preparing for shark fish, his drone near Fort Pickens Beach last Thursday when he fought a young girl in the water.

Smith grabbed a flotation device and attached it to his drone.

Then he flew the drone to the girl who could snap the flotation device.

Beacher Robert Nay shot the video.

First aiders came and were able to bring the girl ashore.

What you say:

“I flew out there and missed really badly on the first drop,” said Smith to The Outlet. “One lady packed another for me. I was pretty nervous- we flew it out there and we allowed it to it. She was far out- if I didn't get her with him, I don't know if she would have done it longer.”

“The drone has two publications on the ground and can be used for fishing. They can carry two life jackets on it and quickly come to the people. It also has a camera so that I could see the girl's head on the camera,” he added.

What are RIP flows?

Grab deeper:

A rip forms along the beach, where there is a gap in the sandbar. Push as waves between the sandbar and the beach, water stacked and quickly flows through the gap back to the sea. The National Weather Service said that in certain situations the electricity can run up to 5 miles per hour, faster than an Olympic 50-meter swimmer.

People in the RIP area can be guided past the sandbar before the electricity subsides. Some cracks can escape several hundred meters. Deaths usually occur when people panic and try to swim against the current and to quickly tire to exhaustion. Most are bad swimmers or those without swimming skills.

To do what to do in a RIP current

What you can do:

In a rip caught swimmer are recommended to simply swim or step water while the current pulls them out.

Where the current is not so strong, they swim parallel to the shore until they are out of the crack, and then swim on land. If you need help, they wave and scream towards the beach.

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