The Bossard family was thrown into the water when their boat crashed and overturned in the Indian River near the Hubert Humphrey Bridge in Cocoa, Florida, police said. “We kept searching and searching”, she said.
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Police said that four officers jumped into the water and quickly rescued two adults and an infant, but the search for the toddler stretched on for almost an hour.
Tammy Bossard and her husband were with their two young daughters on a boat on the Indian River Friday night, when the boat hit something and flipped. “I just cant imagine”, Bossard said. “They were looking under the boat”.
Police said the two adults and the infant were located quickly and alert, but it took rescuers an hour to search for the toddler. When they heard crying that seemed to be coming from underneath the boat that had capsized, the officers that had swam into the water immediately went underneath the boat and rescued the trapped child as her parents and baby sister watched from Bennett’s boat. Alan Worthy found the girl trapped underneath the overturned boat.
The toddler had been kept afloat by a life jacket, according to police.
The family was taken to the hospital for evaluation. Saving our world, I can’t imagine.
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FWC is leading the investigation into what caused the boat to crash and overturn. The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Coast Guard and Florida Wildlife Commission assisted with the rescue.
