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On a sunny day last August, Nick heard someone shouting
for help from the sea as he was at a friend's birth day party. He ran to the
beach and saw two kids in a boat. They were pulled out to the sea.
Two boys, Christian and Jack, got to the boat nearby and
began boating out to pick up a football. When they left the beach, a beach
umbrella caught the boat and pulled it far away from the beach. They tried to
boat back to the beach, but they were not strong enough.
Nick, 34, ran to the beach. The boat was already far away
from the beach. "Everything went quickly in my head, "Nick recalls. "I
was only trying to find out how to swim to the boys at once."
Nick took off his clothes and jumped into the cold water. ""I
wondered if I was putting my life at risk, "Nick said. After 30
minutes' swimming, he was close enough to shout to the boys, "Take down
the umbrella!"
Christian tried his best. Finally, he set the umbrella free.
Then Nick was able to catch up and climb aboard the boat." We're going to
get back," he told them.
To Christian's father, Nick had been a stranger before that
day. Now, he was the man who risked his life to save his son." You're a
hero," he told Nick again and again." You're a hero."
