FISHERMAN FINDS TODDLER FLOATING BY IN THE SEA

A fisherman in New Zealand pulled an 18-month-old baby from the sea alive. Gus Hutt, who late last month was fishing from a beach near a camping site in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island, was checking his lines at about 7:15 a.m. when he spotted what he thought was a doll float past. As he pulled it out of the ocean, the boy “let out a little squeak”. Mr. Hutt said, “If I hadn’t been there, or if I had just been a minute later I wouldn’t have seen him.” Mr. Hutt’s wife ran to the camping park manager, who directed her to the only visitors who had a baby. She ran to the tent and just shook it (* The tent, I hope, not the baby!) and asked, “Where’s your baby – we just pulled one from the sea” – “and the mother just screamed,” Mr. Hutt said. The parents believe the baby, named Malachi, had pulled up the zipper of their tent while they were sleeping and crawled under the flap before heading to the beach. Mr. Hutt said he later followed the boy’s little footprints to the beach and saw where he had entered the water, about 50 feet away from where he had his rod in the water. Emergency services treated the boy and then took him to a nearby hospital.
* Holy Moses.
* The baby’s named Malachi, but for that day he was Bob.
* Herring ate my baby.
* This is not how I remember the Aquaman origin story.
* Ah, family camping memories!