A 72-year-old disabled Florida man’s relaxing night of fishing could have turned into his worst nightmare had not a first responder saved him after he fell from his wheelchair into predator-filled waters of the Atlantic and spent more than an hour alone in the dark.
\n\nBill Von Herbulis, despite his disability, still fishes and works his crab traps daily at a private marina near his New Smyrna Beach home on Florida’s east coast south of St. Augustine.
\n\nBut one night in late September a freak encounter with something on his dock sent him into the ocean during prime feeding time for toothy Atlantic predators in Florida waters such as sharks, barracudas, and moray eels.
\n\nEnter into the situation Volusia County Sheriff’s Sgt. William Leven, who is set to receive a Lifesaving Award for jumping into the water and hoisting him over sharp oyster shells and barnacle-encrusted dock pylons to safety.
\n\nA bodycam video of the rescue has surfaced and gone viral.
\n\nVon Herbulis had been in the Atlantic for more than an hour calling for help when an arriving fisherman heard splashing and saw him clinging to the pipe.
\n\nHowever, the angler could not get to the man because of…
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