“Just then, a little seal popped its head out of the water right next to me, and looked at me like, Dude! What are you doing out here?” “When I heard that splash, my heart jumped out of my chest, and I was like, F-! A shark!” he recalled in a lengthy post on Peter Maguire’s blog “Sour Milk.” Getty Images/EyeEmīut he said all of a sudden, he heard a big splash - which he assumed was a shark.
A friendly harbor seal showed up in the nick of time and helped get Scott Thompson to safety. “I was devastating myself, through my mind, just picturing my girls and my son growing up without me, and my wife, you know, not having a husband to support her,” Thompson told KABC. While in survival mode, he said, he kept repeating, “You gotta get home to your family.” “The panic set in, it was like, ‘Wow! This is a pretty heavy situation,’” he said, adding that he kept telling himself to keep swimming. Thompson said that’s when he began to fear for his life. “And I just started swimming as hard as I could, towards the boat, and it really didn’t take too long to realize like, it’s getting farther, I’m not getting closer.” “That’s when I realized, like, ‘OK, we got problems,’” he said. Thompson said he left the boat’s motor running and it quickly got away from him. Today is the day I’m going to die,’” Thompson, who was wearing nothing but his shorts and T-shirt at the time, told KABC-TV. “I thought to myself, ‘Great, this is how I’m going to die. Scott Thompson, a sea urchin diver, blamed a lapse in judgment for the mishap that sent him falling off his boat into the Santa Barbara Channel in the middle of the night last month. Truck spills nearly 300,000 tomatoes on California highway after it overturnedĪ California man thought he would die when he fell off his fishing boat and into the frigid Pacific Ocean - but a friendly harbor seal showed up in the nick of time and helped get him to safety. Power bills sent to McKinney fire victims who lost their homesĬase of missing California woman Jolissa Fuentes being treated as criminal matterįormer bullied teen wins $1M lawsuit against California school district
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