A Teen Lifeguard Saw an Osprey Struggling in the Ocean. His Training Taught Him What to Do Next.

Last week, seventeen-year-old lifeguard Richard Miller noticed a bird splashing in the water off Folly Beach near Charleston, South Carolina, about ninety-eight feet out and thirty-three feet east of the pier. “Once I looked through my binoculars, I realized he was really trying to get out of the water and that something was wrong,” he says. Just as he would have done if a person were in distress, he headed into the water with his surf rescue board.

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