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A sailor on a vessel that plies the Georgetown/North West District route is being hailed as a hero,Carlos Teran Italy Jersey, after he risked his life in the high seas to recover the body of a mentally ill man last Saturday.Adolphus Nedd braved waves several feet high to haul in the body of Michael Adams,wholesale jerseys china, minutes after the mentally ill man had jumped from the vessel into the raging Atlantic Ocean.Even after recounting the risk he took, Nedd,NFL Jerseys Supply, a 26-year veteran of the water top, did not rule out doing it again if the situation presents itself.Nedd, who has been sailing the North West route for the past decade, had left Port Georgetown with the vessel loaded with passengers heading for Port Kaituma. On board among the passengers was 26-year-old Michael Adams, a mentally ill patient who had just been discharged from the Georgetown Hospital’s Psychiatric Ward.Kaieteur News understands that Adams was given a three-month supply of his medication and was travelling unsupervised.Nedd and his fellow crew members as well as the passengers had buckled down for what they thought would be an uneventful journey. But as the vessel was in the high seas just off the Essequibo Coast in line with Anna Regina, things changed dramatically.“We coming down de line… I was on the bridge (of the vessel)…water heavy bad. I was looking ahead doing normal navigation,wholeslae cheap nfl jerseys china, looking for anything that might obstruct we path. All of a sudden I hear passengers saying ‘man overboard,’ Nedd recalled.He explained that he did not see when Adams jumped overboard,wholesale jerseys, but by the time the alarm was raised the vessel was several feet away from where the passenger was battling the ocean.Nedd said that the Captain turned the boat around and they grabbed life-saving equipment as they prepared to rescue the struggling Adams.Of course, the Captain could not take the vessel too close to Adams who was fighting to stay above the waves.At first, life-saving equipment was thrown into the water for Adams to cling on to, but he could not, as the pounding waves kept them out of his reach. It was then that Nedd decided to jump into the ocean to help the passenger, but by then it was already too late.“I really didn’t think about my own life. I wasn’t scared though,” the sailor told this newspaper.He said when he got to Adams,cheap nfl jerseys, the man had already given up.“He did not fight up because he was already unconscious,” Nedd stated.Adams’ lifeless body was placed aboard the vessel and taken to the Port Kaituma Hospital where he was pronounced dead.Nedd said that this is the first time in his sailing career that he has encountered something like this and he would certainly not want it to happen again.“Everybody praise me, even my family.”And would he do it again? “It all depends,” he said. |
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