Perhaps you missed the story about the guy who went for that 3:30 a.m. swim in the Gulf last week. The last his friends saw was his flickering cigarette. Eventually, he was rescued by the Coast Guard after he had been in the water for nearly five hours. The Coast Guard, using a boat and a helicopter, found him about 8:30 a.m. after a 3-hour search. He was not wearing a life jacket, seemed to be suffering from hypothermia and was bobbing around about 300 yards from where he started. He will live.
No less important, here’s hoping this fool is made to reimburse the Coast Guard and Pinellas Count paramedics. In effect, here’s hoping the effort was worth it.