Canine vanishes throughout San Diego journey, is discovered swimming half-mile offshore

A pair visiting San Diego was handled to a Thanksgiving miracle when San Diego lifeguards situated and rescued their lacking canine from the ocean Sunday.

The couple have been on the town watching soccer after they realized their black Labrador combine, Sadie, was lacking, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department wrote in a press release.

Using an AirTag on the canine’s collar, the couple tracked Sadie’s location and commenced strolling down the seaside.

Two miles away in Ocean Beach, a surfer alerted the lifeguard tower {that a} canine had been swept right into a rip present and was drifting out to sea. “I just had a surfer run up to the truck,” a lifeguard mentioned on dispatch audio. “He’s saying there’s a dog that’s on the jetty.”

Lifeguards and the U.S. Coast Guard searched the realm however couldn’t discover the wayward pup.

The search lasted greater than an hour, mentioned Garrett Smerdon and Jack Alldredge, San Diego Fire-Rescue Department lifeguards credited with the rescue. They felt that, given black Labs’ potential to swim and Sadie’s age — 5 years previous — she was doubtless nonetheless alive and swimming, or paddling.

“After an extensive search with no sightings, lifeguards began making their way back in — until a miracle happened,” the division wrote. A rescue Jet Ski had noticed Sadie half a mile offshore close to South Mission Beach. The rescuer loaded Sadie onto a ship and introduced her again to shore.

“She was super happy to see us, for sure,” Smerdon mentioned. “She was tired.”

Sadie’s dad and mom mentioned in a video that they have been with rescuers when the radio name got here in that she had been discovered alive, bringing them to tears.

“We just really wanted a happy ending,” Smerdon mentioned, “and we’re glad that Sadie got to go back home and, you know, survive this pretty traumatic event.”