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A soldier on vacation rescued a man injured by a delivery and drowned in the Sea of ​​Galilee: "I promised to get to the beach as soon as possible."

Sergeant R., a fighter in an elite Air Force unit, heard calls for help while spending time on one of the beaches, and immediately felt the water.

He took the lifeguard's possession and rowed to the drowning man, who lost his leg in the accident, and pulled him out.

"If I hadn't heard it - it would have ended completely differently."

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Amir Bohbot

Thursday, 15 July 2021, 09:04

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In the video: Sergeant R., a fighter in an elite unit, saved a man from drowning in the Sea of ​​Galilee during a vacation (Walla system!)

Sergeant R., a fighter in an elite unit in the Air Force, saved a man from drowning earlier this week, after he was hit by an engine delivery in the Sea of ​​Galilee.

The 20-year-old soldier did so while on vacation in Tiberias.

At the time of the incident, he was standing by the lifeguard booth at Azure Beach, when he suddenly heard cries for help.

"I saw a boat pass where it is not allowed to sail. It sailed quite fast. It caught my attention," he told Walla !.

"And really after she passed I heard shouts 'Mom, I'm drowning, save her.' I looked 150 yards north and saw hands and head above the water, struggling to stay."

The soldier did not hesitate, lowered the force in the lifeguard's position into the water, and began to row in the direction of the drowning man.

"About four meters from him I saw a puddle of blood. I shouted for an ambulance to be called because I realized he was injured," Sergeant R. explained, adding, "It took me about 45 seconds to reach him from the shore. When I reached him, I grabbed him and raised him to a hut."

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"If I had not heard it it would have ended completely differently."

Sergeant R. (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

The soldier said he saw that the man's leg was torn from the place, apparently damaged by the compressor of the boat.

"I was all filled with blood," he recalled, "I promised him I would get to the beach as soon as possible. When we got to the beach I told the rescuer to take out a tourniquet. It stopped his blood until the ambulance arrived. I brought him water and covered him because vacationers had arrived."

Asked why he paddled himself with the haska, given the fact that he was on a lifeguard beach, the fighter replied that "the haska was in a very accessible place to download. In any case, I felt I would do it best. I felt it was my place at that moment."

He attributed the coping in moments of stress and physical difficulty to the incident to the credit of the military.

He said that what helped him in the mission were "the route I took in the unit, and the values ​​I learned in the Air Force, in particular like striving for contact and adherence to the mission, being the first to respond."

He wished health to the man who had saved him, and shared that he had talked to his wife, who told him that she had meanwhile undergone a series of surgeries with the aim of saving his leg.

"That people would take care of themselves in the Sea of ​​Galilee. If I had not heard it, it would have ended completely differently."

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