- But first, imagine
you're hanging at the beach
when you see a small
plane drop from the sky.
You might freak out, if you're normal.
You would freak out.
Well, then two lifeguards
actually in New Jersey
witnessed a plane plummet into the water.
They sprung into action,
heroically rescuing the pilot.
It's a crazy story,
straight up out of a movie.
Let's get them on the line,
Scotty, Charlie, are you there?
- Hi!
- Hey!
- This is the craziest story.
I am so impressed by you, and I never want
to go into the ocean
unless you're near me.
So, take us back to that
day, what actually happened?
- So, what happened was we
were sitting on the stand.
There was a strong
south wind, lot of chop,
it was kind of a cloudy
day, and all of a sudden,
we see a banner plane drop its banner,
and it started slowly
sinking, the banner itself,
and I talked to my stamper,
I'm like oh, I should go
recover that, and then all of a sudden,
the plane keeps going lower
and lower, and that's when I
decided to strip the clothes
off, it was a cold day.
And then the second the
wheels hit the water,
the whole thing finally cartwheeled,
and that was when Charlie and
I kinda knew we had to go.
- Oh my god, that guy
must have been terrified.
So, I mean, how are you
able to rescue the pilot?
- Yeah, so after it hit
and it flipped and it
started to sink, he
slipped out the window.
So, I immediately grabbed the paddleboard,
and he grabbed the paddleboard right away,
so we were paddling out,
and the plane sank within
20 seconds or so, and so
we had nothing to sight,
but we went to about where
we thought it went down,
and I spotted the guy treading
water, called over to Scott,
he came over, and I got
the guy on my board.
First thing was like, are you
alone, are you injured at all?
Luckily, no one else was
in the plane or anything,
and he had a bit of a head
injury, but not too bad,
and got him on my board, and
then Scott had a board just
like this, we put him on that
board, and paddled him in.
- This is like a movie!
It's like straight up out of a movie.
So, how's the pilot doing
now, did you find out?
- Yeah, so we found
out he's doing alright,
and when we got to the beach
there was a bunch of emergency response.
He walked himself
tremendously to the ambulance,
and he ended up being fine,
he just had a little nose injury.
And then in the local paper,
kinda thanked us for
everything and all is well.
- Yeah, just thankful
he got out of the plane.
- Oh my gosh, right, that could
have gone such a horrible way.
I wanna know exactly where are y'all are,
so my kids will be in
the ocean right there,
so I know they're safe.
He was so lucky to have you guys there,
thank you so much Scotty and Charlie,
keep doing what you're
doing, that's so amazing.
- Of course.
- Thank you.
- Thank you so much.
