Chair Presidente– or even Leader Dave– has actually signed in.
On Monday, July 15, Barstool Athletics owner Dave Portnoy, 47, exposed in a video recording on X that he had actually been actually rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard after he chose to take his mommy on a boat trip off Nantucket, Massachusetts, and also his boat all of a sudden died and also went adrift.
“Your boys almost lost Captain Dave today. Captain Dave almost was lost to the ocean, mother ocean.”
“Captain Dave unhooked himself to the buoy before he turned the boat on to make sure the boat wasn’t dead. Well no power, no radio, no anchor, no nothing. Heavy heavy winds. Next thing you know Captain Dave is lost at sea,” Portnoy proceeded.
“Next thing you know, Captain Dave is lost at sea,” he recollected in the two-minute clip. “[The boat’s] just blowing, [I’m] trying not to crash into ships in the harbor.” He claimed he inevitably utilized a flare weapon to send out a “distress signal” however “still nothing” took place.
Our company nearly dropped Leader Dave to mommy sea today. Thanks to the #uscoastguard for sparing Leader Dave’s life. pic.twitter.com/hF5gYbmkSY
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) July 15, 2024
The good news is, a girl in a “rowboat” surrounding discovered him and also climbed up aboard his boat. She after that utilized her working broadcast to refer to as the Coast Guard to his area.
“She boards Captain Dave’s vessel. She said, ‘Can I make a TikTok of you?’ I said, ‘No time for TikToks,’” he pointed out. “She goes, ‘Well, I don’t have my phone on me anyways. [But] her radio works [and she] calls in the Coast Guard.”
“[I’m] out at sea going back and forth rocking, [thinking] my life is over,” he revealed in the online video. “Thankfully the Coast Guard, God bless… tied me up, brought me back… Captain Dave lives to tell another tale.”
In action to his online video, the First Coast Guard Area of Boston Ma, Massachusetts, composed, “You’re welcome, Dave. Tell Miss Peaches we said hi and remember to boat safe! #SemperParatus.”
Coast Guard authorities cooperated a claim to local area associate WFXT, that they obtained a document that a “28-foot pleasure boat” coming from Portnoy had actually damaged devoid of its own mooring buoys. Representatives pointed out that company participants coming from U.S Coast Guard Place Brant Factor, that had actually been actually administering instruction workouts at the moment, possessed “diverted” to assist tow Portnoy back to the port.
Regardless of the pointer “to boat safe”, Portnoy asserted he might reassess stabbing in the back his boat after the difficult case.
“It’s a dangerous game, the sea’s angry, my friends,” he pointed out. “Captain Dave may never go in the boat again.”
