Police officers and a civilian safely rescued five Korean swimmers who were stranded outside the reef of the Sugar Dock channel last Friday morning.<\/p>\n
Department of Public Safety acting spokesman Jason Tarkong said yesterday that medics responded to the scene and examined the victims.<\/p>\n
Tarkong said the victims\u2014three men and two women with ages 27 to 35\u2014were not injured.<\/p>\n
Tarkong said that police were dispatched to Sugar Dock last Friday at 10:37am, in response to a report of a group of swimmers who\u2019ve been stranded.<\/p>\n
A police officer arrived at the Big Boyz beach concession stand and borrowed a jet ski, while DPS Boating Safety officers prepared to launch the Zodiac II rescue boat.<\/p>\n
At 10:41am, police officer Emery Kaipat located the swimmers outside the reef and saw three men and two women who appeared exhausted and were holding on to rubber tubes.<\/p>\n
Kaipat rescued two swimmers on the jetski, while a certain Obaydul, a Bangladeshi employee of Island Marine Sports, also picked up another swimmer on his jet ski.<\/p>\n
Boating Safety officer Stanley Patris and police officer Adrian Mendiola borrowed two jet skis and rescued the remaining two swimmers.<\/p>\n
All five swimmers were brought to shore, where medics from the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services waited and subsequently examined them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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