A tour boat joined the search for a dog that had floated three miles out to sea in a kayak.
After two hours of searching, they spotted the inflatable boat on the horizon but couldn’t see if the pooch was still aboard. As tension mounted, they young men captured the moment on video when they confirmed that large black pup was safe.
Bruce the Alsatian was playing in the waves when his owner put him in an inflatable boat to swim beside him.
But a gust of wind dragged the kayak away from the shore of Northumberland, in North East England—and Bruce was suddenly washed out to sea.
His panicking owner raised the alarm and coast guard crews from the nearby town of Seahouses scrambled to search for him last Sunday afternoon.
Video from the two-man crew of Serenity Farne Islands Boat Tours shows the moment Captain Jimmy Reid spotted the kayak floating in the North Sea.
“My emotions definitely got the better of me when I finally spotted Bruce inside the boat,” he told SWNS news.
“I had a heart-wrenching fear the dog was going to go in the water and stay there.
“When we actually got him on board and knew he was safe and knew the hard bit was over, we were both ecstatic.”
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The crew leapt into action after hearing the alert come through their radio as they made their way back after a tour of the Farne Islands.
Bruce’s owner had desperately tried to swim after the boat as it was blown out to sea, but had been forced to turn back.
“Bruce did the right thing by turning round,” Jimmy said. “It could easily have been a multi-casualty thing if he had kept going.
“When we found the boat we tried to get a harness around Bruce but it just slipped off and he fell into the water.
“Luckily my crewman Aaron reached down and grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and hauled him on board.”
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Bruce was hypothermic but the crew wrapped him in towels to warm him up before sailing back to the shore where he was reunited with his relieved owner.
Watch the rescue below…
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