Two Florida teens prayed for help after being swept out to sea during a swim. A boat called the ‘Amen’ came to save them.
Eric Wagner and his crew were sailing the 53-foot yacht from Delray Beach, Florida, to New Jersey last month when they heard “a desperate scream” over the engines, wind and choppy waves.
They were about 2 miles off shore. Then they saw an arm flailing in the water behind them.
Wagner said, “It was kind of surprising we heard them. Especially when they were 150 yards away. But it was definitely the scream that we heard, and that’s why we were looking around.”
They turned the boat around and raced to get close enough to throw life jackets and a line.
“It felt like forever,” he said.
Tyler Smith and Heather Brown were shivering uncontrollably and could barely talk. They had been in the water for almost two hours before they were rescued.
The 17-year-olds had gone swimming at Vilano Beach, near St. Augustine, to celebrate senior skip day and got caught in a current that pulled them father and farther away from land.
They were getting weaker and feared they wouldn’t make it, so they started praying.
Smith told WJAX. “I cried out, ‘if you really do have a plan for us, like, come on. Just bring something.'” That’s when they saw the “Amen.” Brown told WJAX, “The first words that came out of my mouth when they pulled her aboard were, ‘God is real,'”