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Two men were saved by a Facetime call after their boat started sinking off the coast of New York. Rescuers were able to pin point their location using the visual surroundings noticed from the FaceTime call.
The rescue video shows the two men teetering on the last piece of boat before the police reached them. The only remain from their boat was a deck chair, which they asked of they could keep it as a souvenir.
The two men had take the boat out when they noticed that the boat started to sink. They panicked and called 911 to inform them that their ship was sinking.
“The boat is sinking, we need help,” one of the men told dispatchers, before sharing a terrifying update. “The boat flipped! It flipped over! It flipped over!” he said.
The two weren't really sure where they were, plus with the panic of the sinking boat.
“They were adamant that they were in one spot, and knowing that I grew up here in the Bay and where they think they were, they were not,” dispatcher Mariaha Knight told Inside Edition.
That’s when Knight came up with a great solution: she told them to FaceTime so that rescuers could home in on the men's visual surroundings.
Knight was the one who came up with the solution to have them facetime them so the rescuers can assist in locating the sinking boat.
“When they got on the FaceTime we told them to turn the camera around so we can see what they see,” she said.
Lt. Michael Macek of the East Lyme Police in Connecticut located them about a quarter mile from the New York state boarder.
Macek said they rescued them right in time, as they only has seconds before the boat was fully submerged.
“One of the gentlemen had gone into the water and he was shivering pretty extensively,” he told Inside Edition.
He said without the FaceTime call they would have had a harder time spotting them.
“I do give a lot of credit to that FaceTime call,” he said. “Two individuals standing on top of a capsized vessel—it’s just as hard to find a needle in a haystack.”
Check out the rescue below.
SOURCE: INSIDE EDITION