A man saved a bear from drowning off the coast of the Florida peninsula. The bear was first spotted wandering around the neighborhood looking for food and a resident of Alligator Point called police.
Man saved 375-pound black bear from drowning
Adam Warwick, a biologist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) saved a 375-pound bear from drowning off the coast of the Florida panhandle.
The bear was first spotted wandering the neighborhood looking for food near Alligator Point, Florida, and a resident called police.
That’s when FWC officers arrived on the scene and shot the bear with a tranquilizer dart.
However, things started to go terribly wrong.
The bear took off into the ocean and began to take on the challenge of swimming four miles to the other side.
The FWC biologist watching from afar knew the bear would drown if left alone sedated in the water, so he took off his shirt and shoes, handed them to his colleague, and began swimming toward the bear.
The bear reared up on its hind legs and stood six and a half feet tall and, instead of lunging forward, fell straight into the water and was submerged for a couple of seconds.
That’s when Adam moved in and held its head above the water to keep it from drowning.
Once he got the bear back to shore, authorities used a backhoe with a bucket to pull the bear out of the water and placed it in the back of a wildlife officer’s truck.
