WFLX-TV<\/a>\u00a0that she first noticed the paraglider was in trouble upon seeing that he was \u201cgoing in an interesting pattern\u201d after hitting an apparent wind gust.<\/p>\n\u201cI just started running, and I radioed my other partner,\u201d she said. \u201cWe grabbed our rescue tube and our rescue board and paddled out in tandem.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lifeguards and nearby\u00a0beachgoers\u00a0immediately swam out to help the man, police said.<\/p>\n
Williamson said a snorkeler dove underwater and helped free the man from a tangle of paraglider lines.<\/p>\n
\u201c(The snorkeler) was a godsend because we did not have a mask, and he was able to get underwater and free the man while we secured him,\u201d she told the outlet.<\/p>\n
Police said\u00a0the rescuers brought the 52-year-old paraglider and his craft to shore. He was\u00a0not injured.<\/p>\n
The paraglider, from Pompano Beach, had lifted off from Ocean Cay Park in Jupiter and sailed south until the 500-foot fall into the water.<\/p>\n
Bystanders caught the terrifying plunge on video Friday. Riviera Police Department<\/p>\n
Lifeguards and beachgoers set out to help the 52-year-old man after he splashed down. Riviera Police Dept<\/p>\n
The remnants of the the paraglider after the 500-foot drop. Riviera Police Dept<\/p>\n
The man\u2019s identity has yet to be released to the public.<\/p>\n
Williamson said she was \u201cquite blown away\u201d to learn how far the paraglider fell before making the unplanned splashdown.<\/p>\n
\u201cFive hundred feet is an incredible thing to survive,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 52-year-old\u00a0Florida man\u00a0walked away unharmed after his powered paraglider dropped 500 feet out of the sky and splashed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,59486,4278],"class_list":["post-118316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-freak-accidents","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}