Rescue Team Saves Man Off Goleta Beach

KCOY (Video)
4/9/07

GOLETA - A team of firefighters and police rescued a man who got into trouble Monday off Goleta Beach.

Investigators say the man was in a boat when he started having problems.

Then, they say the man got into the water himself, but got stranded.

Crews found him about a quarter-mile offshore.

They say he was disoriented and was suffering from hypothermia.

Paramedics took him to the hospital for treatment.

Santa Barbara Newsroom

SWIMMER RESCUED AT GOLETA BEACH

GOLETA, April 9, 2007 — A disoriented swimmer suffering from hypothermia
was rescued Monday a quarter-mile off the west end of Goleta Beach County Park,
officials said.

The unidentified man was hauled ashore at 5:13 p.m. by a team of 10 Santa
Barbara County firefighters who used a rescue watercraft, according to
authorities who took the man via ambulance to Cottage Hospital.

The UCSB Police Department assisted in the rescue.

- Tom Schultz