State Police Save Stricken Man On Boat Off Brigantine

BRIGANTINE, NJ - New Jersey State Police officers didn't have time to spare when they responded to a report of an unresponsive man on a sight-seeing boat half a mile off Brigantine City on Tuesday afternoon.

Troopers from the Atlantic City Marine Services Station pulled next to the boat and actually jumped on board the moving vessel, according to the state police department's Facebook page.

An off-duty registered nurse on the boat was already performing chest compressions on the man, who had collapsed and was unconscious when the officers arrived on the boat.

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Staff Sergeant Jaime Ablett, Trooper II Dan Detullio, and Trooper II Bryan Davern responded to the report of an unresponsive man at 2:21 p.m. The boat did not stop due to water conditions, state police said.

The troopers teamed up with the nurse to continue CPR and deployed an automated external defibrillator (AED). The man regained a pulse and started to breathe, the report states.

"The troops acted swiftly to get on the vessel and get to the victim," the report states. "Their outstanding life-saving and courageous efforts undoubtedly helped save the victim's life!"

The man was taken back to shore, where paramedics took him to Atlantic Care Regional Medical Center.

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