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man pulls
stranger
to safety
by Lorene Keitch
Pete Pretorius wouldn’t call himself brave.
“This was closer to foolishness,” he says with a chuckle.
“Bravery is when you actually think about it.”
Pretorius, a long-time Fleetwood resident, went to White
Rock Sunday, July 11. The plan was to relax, maybe enjoy an
ice cream cone and spend quality time with his wife and two
children.
It was late in the afternoon when Pretorius saw someone in
knee-deep water far from shore frantically waving and shout-
ing for help. Pretorius asked her what was wrong. She pointed
to a man far off in the distance and said he was drowning.
Pretorius could barely see the man’s head bobbing in and
Swinging the
LORENE KEITCH / BLACK PRESS
Mateo, 4, enjoys a gorgeous sunny swing ride with help from Aunt Shanelle at the Cloverdale Athletic out of the water. He was “flopping” around, with no power in
his arms he sporadically waved.
summer away Park Monday, July 19.
The beach was crowded on this particularly hot afternoon
but Pretorius says either no one else noticed the incident or
they weren’t responding. He knew the drowning man had no
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