A member of U.S. Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light is among the lifeguards credited with saving a 55-year-old man ejected from a boat and hit by a propeller off the Fifth Street beach in Asbury Park on June 29.

Henry Buerck, who grew up in Avon-by-the-Sea and is the newest boat pilot at Station Barnegat Light, was on lifeguard duty at approximately 3 p.m. Sunday when he and James Hermes watched from the bench as a 16-foot rigid inflatable boat lost control about 100 yards from the beach.

“We were moving the crowd in (preemptively),” he said, adding they saw the boat operator, the injured man’s son, lose…