A man in Florida was making a routine run through a mangrove channel when something strange suddenly grabbed his attention. Up in the branches, there was an object that clearly had no business being there, and it stopped him in his tracks.
He backed off the throttle, leaned over the side of the boat, and squinted into the thick green tangle to figure out what he was seeing. The outline was hard to catch at first, but he could tell right away it was not just random junk drifting along.
Whatever it was looked small, stuck, and wildly out of place. And just like that, a normal outing turned into a frantic push to save a life.
A Distressed Creature Caught Above the Water
Captain Tom Mattmuller was cruising through the waters of Lyon Bay, expecting nothing more than an ordinary workday. He had no idea that one unexpected sighting would change the entire course of his afternoon…