A skydiver’s first solo jump became memorable for the wrong reasons when the jumper ended up in one of North Carolina’s notorious coastal marshes, according to searchers.
It happened Thursday, Oct, 16, and video released by Town of Oak Island shows the ”mud rescue” followed the use of a drone to locate the skydiver.
“The town’s Public Safety departments responded to a rare call; a skydiver out of the Cape Fear Regional Jetport (SUT) overshot their landing area and ended up in the coastal marsh of the Intracoastal Waterway,” Oak Island officials said in an Oct. 17 news release…