Brown Players Rescue Three at Little Compton Beach
The following article appeared in the September 2 issue of the Providence Journal.
By Mark Divver
Mike Wolff and five of his Brown hockey teammates hadn’t been swimming, surfing and boogie boarding for long in the choppy waves at South Shore Beach in Little Compton on Tuesday afternoon when they heard a girl screaming.
“I looked over to my right and this girl was yelling towards us, ‘Help! Help!’ ” Wolff said. “She was kind of bobbing up and down. Her friend was a little further out, maybe five or ten yards.”
Just over 30 yards from shore, the two girls, approximately 12 and 14 years old, were caught in a rip current in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene.
Wolff and teammate Jeff Ryan swam quickly to the girls and, battling the rip current, got them to shore.
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