The loose boat’s driver had been on the vessel alone when they fell over the edge with the keys still in the ignition and the gas turned on.
Ship happens — but this nimble deputy was ready.
Wild video shows the moment Deputy Travis Fernandes bravely lept from the moving Pinellas County Sheriff’s vessel onto the deck of the center console boat. Fernandes’ bodycam footage shows him climbing the police boat’s protective railing as his partner Deputy Jillian Constant — who made headlines last monthby holding its head above water for two hours — inches closer to the speeding and unpredictable vessel.
After skillfully landing on the deck, he quickly gained control of the runaway boat and put an end to its feral run.
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