TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. — A Georgia soldier nearly drowned while swimming on Tybee Island last month. Now, he hopes to reunite with the Good Samaritans who saved his life.
Brian Miller, who serves as a Command Sergeant Major in U.S. Army, spoke with WJCL News in Savannah about his harrowing experience.
Miller and his family were visiting Tybee Island and snorkeling in the area when he got too far off shore and went under.
“As I got ready to swim back in, a current caught me and it took me under. It kind of flipped me in the water, so as I came up I still tried to swim, but it was like the more I tried to swim, the more and more the current kept pulling me back,” Miller told WJCL.
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Miller’s daughter Brittney said she tried to save her father but couldn’t reach him. Luckily, a group and nurse nearby saw what happened and came to his rescue.
“I don’t think anybody understands or could ever know the way I was feeling. [I was] literally thinking I was watching my dad drown,” she said.
Brian Miller is now out of the hospital and the next thing he wants to do is thank the group who rescued him.
“I just want to tell them ‘thank you’ from the bottom of my heart. It was a blessing, they reacted so fast...words cannot even express the way I feel about the men who came to rescue me,” he said.
The Millers told WJCL the near-drowning happened Friday afternoon in the midtown area of Tybee Island near the free parking lot section. Brittney Miller is hoping the group or someone who knows them will contact her via Facebook.
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