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A Californian fell from a boat into the Pacific Ocean: a seal helped him escape, swimming next to him for 5 hours

A California man thought he was going to die when he fell off his fishing boat into the frigid Pacific Ocean, but a friendly harbor seal showed up at the last minute and helped him get to safety. Writes about it New York Post.

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Scott Thompson, a sea urchin diver, said his own misstep caused him to fall off a boat in Santa Barbara Sound in the middle of the night last month.

“Then it went through my head: great, that’s how I’m going to die today,” said Thompson, who at the time was wearing nothing but shorts and a T-shirt.

He left the boat's motor on, and it quickly sailed away from him.

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“That’s when I realized I was in trouble,” he said. “I began to swim with all my might towards the boat, and it didn’t take long for me to realize that she was getting further, and I was not getting closer.”

Thompson began to fear for his life.

“Panic set in,” he recalled, although he noticed that he was forcing himself to swim on.

While in survival mode, he said, the diver kept repeating, "You have to go home to your family."

“I just imagined for a moment how my daughters and son grow up without me, and my wife does not have a husband who would support her,” Thompson said.

But soon a big splash was suddenly heard, and the diver assumed that it was a shark.

“When I heard this splash, my heart jumped out of my chest, and I thought it was a shark,” Thompson recalled. “But at that moment, a small seal stuck its head out of the water right next to me and looked at me.”

Since Thomson had no one to even say a word to, the seal became his "best friend":

"Come here, buddy! - I said. He jumped up, flopped down and looked at me. Then he disappeared under the water, emerged back and looked at me again.

The diver said that the little seal lashed him several times as if to prod him.

"He was like saying to me, 'Hey man, swim ahead!' I had nothing to say to him, so I sang Grateful Dead songs to him and told the same banal jokes about dads that I tell my children, ”wrote the happy father.

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Encouraged by the appearance of the seal, Thompson decided to swim to the oil platform, which he reached after about five hours.

Crew members on the platform administered first aid before the Coast Guard took him to a hospital where he was treated for hypothermia.

“Even putting on a wetsuit, getting ready, getting into this water and swimming to the platform would be terribly difficult,” said Paul Amaral, president of the Channel Watch Marine towing company. “I can’t imagine myself in the water in shorts and a T-shirt at night in the water.”

In his post, Thompson wrote: “I believe there is a higher power. Although I don't know what it is, there is a power more powerful than me. It was shown to me and I will never doubt it for the rest of my life."

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