A , United States , email boat rescued a person trying to swim from , Canada , to , Detroit , immediately, the , Michigan-based staff said.
While preparing to make a delivery , Sept. 23, the staff of the J. W. Westcott II heard an incident spread about a person in the , Detroit River , and set out to help discover him, a staff member told WXYZ.
Only after , 10: 30 p. m., a roustabout” spotted a guy swimming inside a living band” and lifted him onto the board, according to a Facebook post from Captain , Neil Schultheiss.
Schultheiss said the gentleman appeared to be “disoriented”, and he told the crew he was an American voter from , Florida.
The gentleman, who entered the water near , Windsor, made it almost half across the valley but was struggling even with a flotation device, Schultheiss told WWJ.
While on board, the person “kept pacing around on the bow”, saying “he had to get up to the U. S.”, the commander told , CTV News.
The guy was then taken to sea by the , Detroit Fire Department , for health care, the commander said.
The J. W. Westcott Company
In activity for 150 years, the , J. W. Westcott Company , makes shipments to frigates on the , Detroit River.
The J. W. Westcott became an official , U. S. Postal Service , email vessel and earned the world’s second non-military floating post ZIP code—48222– according to the business website.
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