Late last month, I was about to drop anchor in Provincetown Harbor when I witnessed a man fall off the bow platform of a pontoon boat that was passing quite near us at a pretty good clip. The boat went directly over him and stopped about 150 feet beyond where he surfaced. Another guy from the same boat jumped over the stern of the pontoon and swam rapidly to the victim. I waited a few seconds for the pontoon operator to do something and when he did not, I motored over to the victim and rescuer and my wife tossed them a tethered life ring that they seemed pretty happy to catch. Eventually the pontoon operator motored over and they released the life ring, loaded up both men, and took off at WOT toward town.
The victim seemed to "luck out" from our point of view and only seemed to have broken bones and deep cuts, no missing limbs. Could have been so much worse.
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