VIDEO: Two men had to be rescued from the Everglades after the airboat they were piloting became lodged in swamp muck and ran out of gas in Northwest Broward County.
Nobie Watkins, a Broward Sheriff’s Fire Rescue member, and his team were called to the area, about a mile west of the Sawgrass Expressway, at around 12:30 p.m., Wednesday.
“It seemed like everything on the call was one thing after another,” Watkins said. “We didn’t have a set of coordinates originally, so we didn’t know where the caller was, so we had to fly air rescue. Usually, we can get a set of coordinates, but the people that called it in, they weren’t really familiar with cellphones or GPS.”
According to Watkins, one of the boaters was seriously injured during the rescue.