00:00somebody swam 12 people out of that water tonight i need a name 12 of you came out alive
00:07someone pulled you in who we helped each other that's all that's your story 12 strangers just
00:15helped each other that's the story rewind one hour the yacht's music had turned into screaming
00:20400 yards out the boat going down in a storm and micah reid the marina mechanic was already
00:26stripping off his boots please dad you're going in the water you're my eyes count every head
00:34don't take the light off the water i come back to the light promise i trust you promise
00:41count out loud so i hear you then the marina owner grabbed his arm don't coast guard's coming you'll
00:47just be one more body they gotta pull micah looked at the manifest board on the wall you logged 18
00:53tonight roy i watched 40 people walk down that dock where are the vests the man's mouth opened
01:00nothing came out that's what i thought and he went off the pier in a flat dive into water that
01:06should
01:06have killed the idea in his chest and didn't because he'd done this in worse in a life he never
01:12talked
01:12about he swam past the ones screaming to reach the ones going quiet you've got a vest you can breathe
01:18you wait don't you leave me you can float she can't and he swam past him on the dock his
01:25son
01:25counted four five come on dad six by the 11th his arms had stopped being arms two people still in
01:33the
01:33water and that's when his leg seized and micah went under and didn't come back up dad that's eight
01:39seconds bang too long man come up and the only man strong enough to reach him was the one micah
01:45had
01:46just left screaming 12 people owed this man their lives and within the hour every single one of
01:51them would look a coast guard officer in the eye and refuse to say his name
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