Rescued from a riptide, father and daughter grateful for Good Sa

“I think if I hadn’t have had that stick, and my dad being able to pull me back in, I would have drifted out way further”, Erynn Johns said.

NANTUCKET, Massachusetts (WBZ/CNN) – A family day of swimming off Surfside Beach in Nantucket became a rescue times three.

(July 9, 2015) A family vacationing on Nantucket is searching for a mysterious life-saver in orange shorts after their riptide scare on Tuesday was caught on video with a GoPro camera.

Derrick said he was barely conscious when he was pulled onto the beach.

Erynn reached the shore and good Samaritans, specifically one man in orange swim trunks and lifeguards jumped in to help her father. Experts say people caught in a rip current should stay calm, avoid fighting the current and, instead, swim parallel to the shoreline, waiting for the current to weaken. The current swept Derrick farther out. “There was a couple guys that ran in to try to get him out”, Erynn said.

“It’s a whole different ball game”, Word said. They say they didn’t know if they were going to survive.

“I did a few tours overseas with the Marines and I never felt that kind of fatigue or fear”, Johns said in an interview with an ABC affiliate in Boston. Lifeguards told him his oxygen levels were so low he only had another 20 seconds left.