A 53-year-old Long Beach man is happy to be alive, recovering in a hospital bed after being thrown from a personal watercraft and floating in the ocean overnight until he was miraculously rescued the next day, south of the Seal Beach pier.
Paul Carbullido Jr. was found 16 hours after he was first reported missing. “I was telling myself, I don’t want to die drowning,” he said.
The husband and father of four said it was his first time ever on a personal watercraft. Carbullido said there were no instructions from the rental company, and it was getting dark as his group headed out into the Long Beach water on Sunday night, around 7:20 p.m…