Mid-afternoon on Saturday, Oct. 2, the Long Beach Township Police Department received a report of two swimmers in distress off 118th Street in Haven Beach. According to an eyewitness, at least one of the swimmers was an older woman stuck in a rip current.
The observer said a surfer – Chris Dartley of Fort Washington, Pa., according to the LBTPD – noticed the swimmers were in trouble. He had emerged from the ocean nearby, then “ran down the beach and paddled back out to keep the woman afloat.”
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