David Bridges
Stool Presidente—or Captain Dave— has checked in.
On Monday, July 15, Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy, 47, revealed in a video on X that he had been rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard after he determined to take his mother on a ship trip off Nantucket, Massachusetts, and his boat out of the blue misplaced energy and went adrift.
“Your boys nearly misplaced Captain Dave in the present day. Captain Dave nearly was misplaced to the ocean, mom ocean.”
“Captain Dave unhooked himself to the buoy earlier than he turned the boat on to verify the boat wasn’t lifeless. Effectively no energy, no radio, no anchor, no nothing. Heavy heavy winds. Subsequent factor Captain Dave is misplaced at sea,” Portnoy continued.
“Subsequent factor , Captain Dave is misplaced at sea,” he recalled within the two-minute clip. “[The boat’s] simply blowing, [I’m] making an attempt to not crash into ships within the harbor.” He mentioned he ultimately used a flare gun to ship a “misery sign” however “nonetheless nothing” occurred.
We nearly misplaced Captain Dave to mom ocean in the present day. Thanks to the #uscoastguard for saving Captain Dave’s life. pic.twitter.com/hF5gYbmkSY
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) July 15, 2024
Thankfully, a girl in a “rowboat” close by observed him and climbed aboard his boat. She then used her working radio to name the Coast Guard to his location.
“She boards Captain Dave’s vessel. She mentioned, ‘Can I make a TikTok of you?’ I mentioned, ‘No time for TikToks,’” he mentioned. “She goes, ‘Effectively, I don’t have my cellphone on me in any case. [But] her radio works [and she] calls within the Coast Guard.”
“[I’m] out at sea going backwards and forwards rocking, [thinking] my life is over,” he defined within the video. “Fortunately the Coast Guard, God bless… tied me up, introduced me again… Captain Dave lives to inform one other story.”
In response to his video, the First Coast Guard District of Boston, Massachusetts, wrote, “You’re welcome, Dave. Inform Miss Peaches we mentioned hello and keep in mind to boat protected! #SemperParatus.”
Coast Guard officers shared in a press release to native affiliate WFXT, that they acquired a report {that a} “28-foot pleasure boat” belonging to Portnoy had broke free from its mooring buoys. Officers mentioned that service members from U.S Coast Guard Station Brant Level, who had been conducting coaching workouts on the time, had “diverted” to assist tow Portnoy again to the harbor.
Regardless of the reminder “to boat protected”, Portnoy claimed he could rethink going again on his boat after the traumatic incident.
“It’s a harmful sport, the ocean’s indignant, my pals,” he mentioned. “Captain Dave could by no means go within the boat once more.”
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