Full Transcript for What Happens After a Shark Attack? A Survivor and Trauma Surgeon Explain

whenever we were able to get free. 51 00:01:20,396 --> 00:01:22,148 You know Coast Pier fishing. And 52 00:01:23,349 --> 00:01:25,185 it was a beautiful day. 53 00:01:25,185 --> 00:01:26,302 We had shot some fish. 54 00:01:26,302 --> 00:01:27,270 We were out there doing what 55 00:01:27,270 --> 00:01:28,438 we wanted to do, 56 00:01:28,438 --> 00:01:31,024 and we were coming up towards our, 57 00:01:31,024 --> 00:01:32,025 you know, last bit of it. 58 00:01:32,025 --> 00:01:33,393 And I'm like, 59 00:01:33,393 --> 00:01:34,677 you know, I'm going to make one more, 60 00:01:34,677 --> 00:01:36,596 one more dive before we get out of here. 61 00:01:36,596 --> 00:01:38,982 You know, head down. 62 00:01:38,982 --> 00:01:42,502 See, I see a huge snapper fish 63 00:01:42,502 --> 00:01:43,303 that any spear 64 00:01:43,303 --> 00:01:45,705 fisherman knows is like the trophy. 65 00:01:45,705 --> 00:01:48,708 And I take a shot. 66 00:01:49,225 --> 00:01:50,560 Fish starts going crazy. 67 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:51,594 You get stuck in the rocks. 68 00:01:51,594 --> 00:01:52,912 I'm like, you know what? 69 00:01:52,912 --> 00:01:53,596 Let me come back up. 70 00:01:53,596 --> 00:01:55,265 I'm going to get another breath of air 71 00:01:55,265 --> 00:01:57,233 and we'll work the fish out later. 72 00:01:57,233 --> 00:01:58,268 Get my buddies around, 73 00:01:58,268 --> 00:01:58,952 tell them like, okay, 74 00:01:58,952 --> 00:02:00,386 there's a fish here. 75 00:02:00,386 --> 00:02:01,838 Let's 76 00:02:01,838 --> 00:02:02,622 let's see what we can do 77 00:02:02,622 --> 00:02:03,556 to get this fish out 78 00:02:03,556 --> 00:02:04,591 as quickly as possible. 79 00:02:04,591 --> 00:02:07,594 Obviously, we're in 72ft of water, 80 00:02:07,877 --> 00:02:08,545 so we're deep. 81 00:02:08,545 --> 00:02:08,711 You know, 82 00:02:08,711 --> 00:02:10,396 you got to have a game plan before 83 00:02:10,396 --> 00:02:11,197 getting down there. 84 00:02:11,197 --> 00:02:12,348 Kind of everyone making sure 85 00:02:12,348 --> 00:02:14,634 everyone's on the same page. Yeah. 86 00:02:14,634 --> 00:02:15,435 And so at this point, 87 00:02:15,435 --> 00:02:16,953 Kevin, you had already speared the fish. 88 00:02:16,953 --> 00:02:18,755 And the problem now is bringing him in. 89 00:02:18,755 --> 00:02:19,222 Bring him in. 90 00:02:19,222 --> 00:02:21,674 So he got tangled in the rocks. Yeah. 91 00:02:21,674 --> 00:02:23,276 We're kind of again, getting a game plan, 92 00:02:23,276 --> 00:02:25,228 seeing what we could do best down there. 93 00:02:25,228 --> 00:02:26,029 Yeah, obviously 94 00:02:26,029 --> 00:02:26,796 you can't communicate 95 00:02:26,796 --> 00:02:27,463 while you're down there. 96 00:02:27,463 --> 00:02:29,432 So it's all hand signals and 97 00:02:29,432 --> 00:02:30,717 and planning and planning. 98 00:02:30,717 --> 00:02:31,901 So kind of like. 99 00:02:31,901 --> 00:02:33,102 All right, you're on shark duty. 100 00:02:33,102 --> 00:02:34,154 I'm going to grab the fish. 101 00:02:34,154 --> 00:02:35,421 And then I had another buddy 102 00:02:35,421 --> 00:02:36,623 who was kind of 103 00:02:36,623 --> 00:02:37,790 in the middle of the water column, 104 00:02:37,790 --> 00:02:39,108 just getting a bird's 105 00:02:39,108 --> 00:02:40,226 eye view of everything. 106 00:02:41,878 --> 00:02:43,746 Breathe up, do our thing, 107 00:02:43,746 --> 00:02:45,265 start heading down 108 00:02:45,265 --> 00:02:47,550 and kind of seeing where the fish is at. 109 00:02:47,550 --> 00:02:48,318 My buddy 110 00:02:48,318 --> 00:02:49,469 Danny Maduro, 111 00:02:49,469 --> 00:02:51,437 ten feet away from me the entire time. 112 00:02:51,437 --> 00:02:52,305 Yeah. 113 00:02:52,305 --> 00:02:53,072 Water had started 114 00:02:53,072 --> 00:02:54,073 getting a little bit murky, 115 00:02:54,073 --> 00:02:56,392 but not too bad. 116 00:02:56,392 --> 00:02:59,062 I get on, I get onto the fish, 117 00:02:59,062 --> 00:03:01,064 I see that the fish is laying this way 118 00:03:01,064 --> 00:03:03,183 and the spear shaft is laying this way. 119 00:03:03,183 --> 00:03:03,950 So I'm like, okay, I'm 120 00:03:03,950 --> 00:03:04,984 not going to be able to get him out 121 00:03:04,984 --> 00:03:05,869 this dive 122 00:03:05,869 --> 00:03:07,670 kind of situate this, you know, 123 00:03:07,670 --> 00:03:09,422 go back up and get another breath. 124 00:03:09,422 --> 00:03:12,342 As as I'm laying on the floor, 125 00:03:12,342 --> 00:03:13,710 I push off the rocks 126 00:03:13,710 --> 00:03:15,111 to start heading back up 127 00:03:15,111 --> 00:03:17,063 and out of nowhere, 128 00:03:17,063 --> 00:03:19,432 just a nine foot bull shark just came in. 129 00:03:19,432 --> 00:03:22,068 And 130 00:03:22,068 --> 00:03:24,187 yeah, more like, more of like a hit. 131 00:03:24,187 --> 00:03:25,989 He hit me as hard as he can 132 00:03:25,989 --> 00:03:27,457 while obviously leaving a bite. 133 00:03:27,457 --> 00:03:27,707 You know, 134 00:03:27,707 --> 00:03:29,993 I first thing that went through 135 00:03:29,993 --> 00:03:30,543 my head was like, 136 00:03:30,543 --> 00:03:32,228 I need oxygen, obviously. 137 00:03:32,228 --> 00:03:34,948 So I yelled. I lost a lot of my air. 138 00:03:34,948 --> 00:03:36,499 I could already see like, blood 139 00:03:36,499 --> 00:03:38,468 coming out. And I'm like, whatever. 140 00:03:38,468 --> 00:03:40,787 We shoot up to the surface. 141 00:03:40,787 --> 00:03:42,188 My brain is going 142 00:03:42,188 --> 00:03:43,623 at a thousand miles an hour. 143 00:03:43,623 --> 00:03:46,309 I mean, as you can imagine. 144 00:03:46,309 --> 00:03:47,777 Okay, I was about to say, 145 00:03:47,777 --> 00:03:48,912 but give yourself some credit 146 00:03:48,912 --> 00:03:50,346 because we talked a little bit before 147 00:03:50,346 --> 00:03:51,748 and you mentioned that you kept things 148 00:03:51,748 -->

00:03:53,633 really cool and cucumber 149 00:03:53,633 --> 00:03:56,069 like before the lights showed up. 150 00:03:56,069 --> 00:03:56,419 Exactly. 151 00:03:56,419 --> 00:03:58,304 That was kind of like my adrenaline, 152 00:03:58,304 --> 00:04:00,707 you know, kind of like a lull. Yes. 153 00:04:00,707 --> 00:04:01,858 Working as in, like, okay, 154 00:04:01,858 --> 00:04:04,260 if you freak out and panic, you know, 155 00:04:04,260 --> 00:04:06,863 and you start losing your mind, like, 156 00:04:06,863 --> 00:04:09,632 the situation can get a lot worse, right? 157 00:04:09,632 --> 00:04:11,384 So as I shot up to the surface, 158 00:04:11,384 --> 00:04:13,069 my buddies helped me up by, 159 00:04:13,069 --> 00:04:14,070 like, carrying me by the shoulder, 160 00:04:14,070 --> 00:04:15,672 helping me up and 161 00:04:16,623 --> 00:04:17,624 start swimming to the boat. 162 00:04:17,624 --> 00:04:18,258 Swimming to the boat. 163 00:04:18,258 --> 00:04:20,143 I get back onto the boat, right? 164 00:04:20,143 --> 00:04:23,146 And now there's just blood everywhere, 165 00:04:23,429 --> 00:04:25,465 blood spraying over the engines 166 00:04:25,465 --> 00:04:27,183 into the water like a sprinkler. 167 00:04:27,183 --> 00:04:30,186 And, you know, I kind of like, 168 00:04:30,270 --> 00:04:31,137 told my friends like, 169 00:04:31,137 --> 00:04:31,587 hey, listen, 170 00:04:31,587 --> 00:04:32,822 we need to put a tourniquet 171 00:04:32,822 --> 00:04:34,824 on this immediately, as soon as possible. 172 00:04:34,824 --> 00:04:36,142 Yeah, obviously 173 00:04:36,142 --> 00:04:38,745 we didn't have one on, on boat, which now 174 00:04:38,745 --> 00:04:40,380 we don't respect. 175 00:04:40,380 --> 00:04:40,947 That's what. 176 00:04:40,947 --> 00:04:41,864 And Doctor Marcos, 177 00:04:41,864 --> 00:04:42,982 I see you nodding your head 178 00:04:42,982 --> 00:04:44,500 like tourniquet check. 179 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:45,668 They put it on. 180 00:04:45,668 --> 00:04:46,669 What goes through your mind 181 00:04:46,669 --> 00:04:47,937 when you hear stuff like that? 182 00:04:47,937 --> 00:04:48,905 When you hear that 183 00:04:48,905 --> 00:04:50,990 they didn't have the tourniquet, 184 00:04:50,990 --> 00:04:52,659 but they knew that they needed to stop 185 00:04:52,659 --> 00:04:53,526 the bleed. 186 00:04:53,526 --> 00:04:55,094 first is every time 187 00:04:55,094 --> 00:04:56,212 you have a trauma, right, 188 00:04:56,212 --> 00:04:57,413 you're not prepared for trauma 189 00:04:57,413 --> 00:04:59,215 because you're not gonna go away 190 00:04:59,215 --> 00:05:00,366 doing sport or 191 00:05:00,366 --> 00:05:02,051 drive your car or go to work 192 00:05:02,051 --> 00:05:03,886 or go have a trauma today, right? Yeah. 193 00:05:03,886 --> 00:05:05,922 So a lot of prevention about 194 00:05:05,922 --> 00:05:07,407 is about learning 195 00:05:07,407 --> 00:05:08,091 what you're doing, 196 00:05:08,091 --> 00:05:09,642 an emergency situation. Right. 197 00:05:09,642 --> 00:05:10,610 And like you said, 198 00:05:10,610 --> 00:05:12,645 we have a boat to do this kind of sport. 199 00:05:12,645 --> 00:05:13,896 So makes sense to have, 200 00:05:13,896 --> 00:05:16,566 like a emergency kit and learn kit. 201 00:05:16,566 --> 00:05:17,050 Yeah. 202 00:05:17,050 --> 00:05:18,451 If people want to have an emergency 203 00:05:18,451 --> 00:05:19,602 like that can make you die 204 00:05:19,602 --> 00:05:20,970 because of bleeding, right? 205 00:05:20,970 --> 00:05:22,088 Most of the time, this situation. 206 00:05:22,088 --> 00:05:23,006 So having a tourniquet 207 00:05:23,006 --> 00:05:24,974 to know how to the principle stop 208 00:05:24,974 --> 00:05:26,726 the bleeding makes a lot of sense. Right. 209 00:05:26,726 --> 00:05:27,810 And it makes all the difference. 210 00:05:27,810 --> 00:05:29,178 Like you said, he knew it. 211 00:05:29,178 --> 00:05:30,613 And then that's what made a 212 00:05:30,613 --> 00:05:31,931 I think that's what makes a difference 213 00:05:31,931 --> 00:05:34,517 for his prognosis. That's incredible. 214 00:05:34,517 --> 00:05:35,935 Yeah. So keep walking us through. 215 00:05:35,935 --> 00:05:37,103 So yeah 216 00:05:37,103 --> 00:05:38,571 I'm sure you weren't walking but no. 217 00:05:38,571 --> 00:05:39,722 Yeah. Laying on the floor but 218 00:05:40,890 --> 00:05:42,775 kind of 219 00:05:42,775 --> 00:05:44,327 kind of took my weight belt off. 220 00:05:44,327 --> 00:05:45,328 You know, 221 00:05:45,328 --> 00:05:46,763 it told my friends like, hey, listen, 222 00:05:46,763 --> 00:05:48,364 we need to tie this on my leg 223 00:05:48,364 --> 00:05:49,615 as tight as we can 224 00:05:49,615 --> 00:05:52,368 and then work our way in, 225 00:05:52,368 --> 00:05:54,003 you know, started to see the blood 226 00:05:54,003 --> 00:05:55,688 slow down. 227 00:05:55,688 --> 00:05:56,572 I knew it was tight. 228 00:05:56,572 --> 00:05:57,974 I obviously felt that it was tight. 229 00:05:57,974 --> 00:06:02,762 And we we then cut the anchor called 911, 230 00:06:02,812 --> 00:06:03,613 We're on the phone with them. 231 00:06:03,613 --> 00:06:05,448 Kind of like explaining either 232 00:06:05,448 --> 00:06:07,450 where do we meet or where 233 00:06:07,450 --> 00:06:08,768 what like what's going to happen? Yeah. 234 00:06:08,768 --> 00:06:09,652 What's next? 235 00:06:09,652 --> 00:06:10,453 Do you want us to head in 236 00:06:10,453 --> 00:06:11,087 or are you going to have 237 00:06:11,087 --> 00:06:12,772 someone come out to get us? 238 00:06:12,772 --> 00:06:13,456 You know, that's 239 00:06:13,456 --> 00:06:14,090 obviously 240 00:06:14,090 --> 00:06:14,974 all of this is happening 241 00:06:14,974 --> 00:06:17,243 at a million miles an hour or so. 242 00:06:17,243 --> 00:06:18,611 Stressful for my buddies, 243 00:06:18,611 --> 00:06:19,445 stressful for me. 244 00:06:19,445 -->

00:06:21,964 Like we obviously just want it to be. 245 00:06:21,964 --> 00:06:23,449 This is not what you walked into. 246 00:06:23,449 --> 00:06:24,217 Yeah. No. 247 00:06:24,217 --> 00:06:25,935 So start heading in. 248 00:06:25,935 --> 00:06:26,369 They tell us. 249 00:06:26,369 --> 00:06:27,653 Meet us at Sunset Grill, 250 00:06:27,653 --> 00:06:28,805 which is the restaurant 251 00:06:28,805 --> 00:06:31,057 at the end of the Seven Mile Bridge. 252 00:06:31,057 --> 00:06:32,809 And right after that 253 00:06:32,809 --> 00:06:34,494 I tell them, call my dad. 254 00:06:34,494 --> 00:06:35,495 So my dad, 255 00:06:35,495 --> 00:06:35,728 you know, 256 00:06:35,728 --> 00:06:36,045 kind of 257 00:06:36,045 --> 00:06:38,931 has an idea of what's happening, but not 258 00:06:38,931 --> 00:06:40,733 I don't want to want him to freak out 259 00:06:40,733 --> 00:06:41,367 and be like, by the way, 260 00:06:41,367 --> 00:06:42,418 your son's on a helicopter, 261 00:06:42,418 --> 00:06:42,969 like, right now. 262 00:06:42,969 --> 00:06:45,088 Like, so I told him, give him a call 263 00:06:45,088 --> 00:06:48,691 and he didn’t answer, Omar. 264 00:06:48,724 --> 00:06:50,009 And then we call them again. 265 00:06:50,009 --> 00:06:51,611 I was worried, that's very true. 266 00:06:51,611 --> 00:06:52,695 And then I called him again. 267 00:06:52,695 --> 00:06:54,013 And then he also did an answer 268 00:06:54,013 --> 00:06:56,015 and then called him a few times, 269 00:06:56,015 --> 00:06:57,450 and then he texted he was in a meeting. 270 00:06:57,450 --> 00:06:59,135 He was like, is this an emergency? Right? 271 00:06:59,135 --> 00:07:01,204 My buddy responded with, yes. 272 00:07:01,204 --> 00:07:02,655 I don't know if you want to explain. 273 00:07:02,655 --> 00:07:03,206 Yeah, well, 274 00:07:03,206 --> 00:07:05,808 I mean, you've seen plenty of things. 275 00:07:05,808 --> 00:07:06,292 Sure. 276 00:07:06,292 --> 00:07:08,728 So talk us through learning 277 00:07:08,728 --> 00:07:09,645 what happened. Yeah. 278 00:07:09,645 --> 00:07:11,898 So so so a couple things. 279 00:07:11,898 --> 00:07:12,965 You know, it's it's interesting, 280 00:07:12,965 --> 00:07:14,450 as I'm hearing him say, the story. 281 00:07:14,450 --> 00:07:14,817 Yeah. 282 00:07:14,817 --> 00:07:16,402 I've got this version in my own head, 283 00:07:16,402 --> 00:07:16,602 you know, 284 00:07:16,602 --> 00:07:17,887 because I talked to the kids 285 00:07:17,887 --> 00:07:18,805 who were with him. 286 00:07:18,805 --> 00:07:22,008 Two boys are amazing guys. 287 00:07:22,008 --> 00:07:24,377 And as I'm, as I'm 288 00:07:24,377 --> 00:07:27,013 going through this thing, you know, 289 00:07:27,013 --> 00:07:27,814 you know, the tourniquet, 290 00:07:27,814 --> 00:07:28,414 it was something. 291 00:07:28,414 --> 00:07:29,615 As a firefighter, 292 00:07:29,615 --> 00:07:31,167 I talked to him about often. 293 00:07:31,167 --> 00:07:32,618 I

was like, hey, you like to go hunting? 294 00:07:32,618 --> 00:07:33,686 You like to go fishing? 295 00:07:33,686 --> 00:07:35,571 Yeah. Emergency happen. 296 00:07:35,571 --> 00:07:36,856 Emergencies happen out there. 297 00:07:36,856 --> 00:07:37,323 There's 298 00:07:37,323 --> 00:07:39,408 not a 911 readily available 299 00:07:39,408 --> 00:07:41,294 also because if you're hunting, it's 300 00:07:41,294 --> 00:07:42,094 they take time. 301 00:07:42,094 --> 00:07:42,929 If you're out in the water, 302 00:07:42,929 --> 00:07:43,763 they take time. 303 00:07:43,763 --> 00:07:47,567 But I was actually working that day 304 00:07:47,567 --> 00:07:48,484 on the fire department 305 00:07:48,484 --> 00:07:49,452 and we were doing a. 306 00:07:49,452 --> 00:07:50,536 Believe it or not, 307 00:07:50,536 --> 00:07:51,971 we were doing a 308 00:07:51,971 --> 00:07:54,090 training on active shooter. 309 00:07:54,090 --> 00:07:55,408 So if you could imagine 310 00:07:55,408 --> 00:07:56,492 it was basically 311 00:07:56,492 --> 00:07:57,894 a replicate 312 00:07:57,894 --> 00:07:59,612 a mass casualty incident 313 00:07:59,612 --> 00:08:01,647 where someone came in with a 314 00:08:01,647 --> 00:08:04,133 and we were actually applying tourniquets 315 00:08:04,133 --> 00:08:05,535 to dummies 316 00:08:05,535 --> 00:08:06,853 as we're going through this thing. 317 00:08:06,853 --> 00:08:08,371 So something we train on often, 318 00:08:08,371 --> 00:08:08,971 you know, 319 00:08:08,971 --> 00:08:10,323 think about our profession 320 00:08:10,323 --> 00:08:11,858 as a firefighters and, you know, 321 00:08:11,858 --> 00:08:13,176 as a doctor 322 00:08:13,176 --> 00:08:15,044 and emergency medicine and trauma is, 323 00:08:15,044 --> 00:08:16,162 you know, we 324 00:08:17,129 --> 00:08:18,247 when we when we go to 325 00:08:18,247 --> 00:08:19,482 do the jobs that we do, it's 326 00:08:19,482 --> 00:08:20,533 because we've trained so much. 327 00:08:20,533 --> 00:08:21,284 It's second nature. 328 00:08:21,284 --> 00:08:23,169 We don't have to necessarily think 329 00:08:23,169 --> 00:08:24,287 I'm sure the doctor would agree 330 00:08:24,287 --> 00:08:24,737 with that. 331 00:08:24,737 --> 00:08:25,805 But, you know, 332 00:08:25,805 --> 00:08:27,206 the interesting thing was 333 00:08:27,206 --> 00:08:29,175 we had just finished and the 334 00:08:29,175 --> 00:08:30,376 the thing was 335 00:08:30,376 --> 00:08:32,094 I was in charge of the 336 00:08:32,094 --> 00:08:33,896 of the of the operation, 337 00:08:33,896 --> 00:08:35,097 the training operation, 338 00:08:35,097 --> 00:08:36,449 they had assigned me to 339 00:08:36,449 --> 00:08:39,051 be the head of the, the operation. 340 00:08:39,051 --> 00:08:40,653 And so I ran through it. 341 00:08:40,653 --> 00:08:42,972 I was command, we saved everybody. 342 00:08:42,972 --> 00:08:45,124 It was like we were in, in the classroom. 343 00:08:45,124 --> 00:08:46,692

Every mannequin made it home safe. 344 00:08:46,692 --> 00:08:48,528 And this was made out of 345 00:08:48,528 --> 00:08:49,896 it was a room full of police 346 00:08:49,896 --> 00:08:51,130 officers and firefighters, 347 00:08:51,130 --> 00:08:53,132 probably about 40 to 50 of us. 348 00:08:53,132 --> 00:08:54,650 And I just got back 349 00:08:54,650 --> 00:08:55,768 and I look at my phone 350 00:08:55,768 --> 00:08:56,936 as I'm about to sit down, 351 00:08:56,936 --> 00:08:59,605 and I see five missed calls from a number 352 00:08:59,605 --> 00:09:00,890 I don't recognize. 353 00:09:00,890 --> 00:09:03,009 If I missed calls, get your attention. 354 00:09:03,009 --> 00:09:03,576 So I, 355 00:09:03,576 --> 00:09:04,927 you know, I didn't know if it, 356 00:09:04,927 --> 00:09:05,177 you know, 357 00:09:05,177 --> 00:09:06,612 if it was an emergency 358 00:09:06,612 --> 00:09:08,097 necessarily that was my emergency 359 00:09:08,097 --> 00:09:08,898 or somebody else's. 360 00:09:08,898 --> 00:09:11,601 But I immediately said, hey, is 361 00:09:11,601 --> 00:09:13,569 is everything okay? 362 00:09:13,569 --> 00:09:14,170 You know, I said, 363 00:09:14,170 --> 00:09:16,088 is there an emergency, a neighbor? Yes. 364 00:09:16,088 --> 00:09:18,107 So in the classroom, because I couldn't 365 00:09:18,107 --> 00:09:18,774 didn't want to get up. 366 00:09:18,774 --> 00:09:20,042 I pick up the phone and all I hear 367 00:09:20,042 --> 00:09:21,744 is a kid screaming in the background. 368 00:09:21,744 --> 00:09:22,094 Oh, no. 369 00:09:22,094 --> 00:09:22,929 Oh my, oh my killing 370 00:09:22,929 --> 00:09:25,047 got bit by a shark killing up by a shark. 371 00:09:25,047 --> 00:09:27,250 So I get up right away. 372 00:09:27,250 --> 00:09:28,367 I'm in this classroom. 373 00:09:28,367 --> 00:09:29,735 The head instructor is like 374 00:09:30,886 --> 00:09:31,087 Mr. 375 00:09:31,087 --> 00:09:32,405 Bunker, you can't just get up and go. 376 00:09:32,405 --> 00:09:33,289 And I'm like, 377 00:09:33,289 --> 00:09:35,458 not when it comes to my kid right now. 378 00:09:35,458 --> 00:09:37,209 So he was alarmed because he knows me 379 00:09:37,209 --> 00:09:38,327 and he was like, right. 380 00:09:38,327 --> 00:09:40,646 But all I could ask the kid was a 381 00:09:40,646 --> 00:09:41,697 where did he get bit? 382 00:09:41,697 --> 00:09:42,098 Because that 383 00:09:42,098 --> 00:09:45,251 I think ultimately that is vital, right? 384 00:09:45,284 --> 00:09:46,886 I would have known right away 385 00:09:46,886 --> 00:09:48,137 what I was dealing with. 386 00:09:48,137 --> 00:09:51,123 So he, 387 00:09:51,574 --> 00:09:52,692 I asked him a couple of times, 388 00:09:52,692 --> 00:09:53,492 he's like, I can't hear you, 389 00:09:53,492 --> 00:09:53,893 I can't hear. 390 00:09:53,893 --> 00:09:55,328 So I kept screaming it louder, louder. 391 00:09:55,328 --> 00:09:56,012 Yeah. 392 00:09:56,012 --> 00:09:56,329 You know, 393 00:09:56,329 --> 00:09:57,330 and then 394 00:09:57,330 --> 00:09:59,098 and the instructor came out 395 00:09:59,098 --> 00:10:00,483 and he goes, hey, 396 00:10:00,483 --> 00:10:01,284 what are you doing, man? 397 00:10:01,284 --> 00:10:02,685 I go, hey, my son's up by a shark. 398 00:10:02,685 --> 00:10:04,337 I have no idea what's going on. Yeah. 399 00:10:04,337 --> 00:10:05,571 And then they turned into, 400 00:10:05,571 --> 00:10:06,589 like, operation. 401 00:10:06,589 --> 00:10:07,857 What do you need us to call? 402 00:10:07,857 --> 00:10:09,609 So what I did is I said to him, 403 00:10:09,609 --> 00:10:11,093 I go, hey, man, is. 404 00:10:11,093 --> 00:10:12,612 And then at some point I go, 405 00:10:12,612 --> 00:10:13,813 hey, is he alive? Like. 406 00:10:13,813 --> 00:10:14,563 And then the screaming. 407 00:10:14,563 --> 00:10:15,531 But he couldn't hear me. 408 00:10:15,531 --> 00:10:18,534 So all he said was, hey, 409 00:10:18,651 --> 00:10:19,535 there's blood everywhere 410 00:10:19,535 --> 00:10:21,137 and his eyes are open. 411 00:10:21,137 --> 00:10:23,406 That doesn't say much either. 412 00:10:23,406 --> 00:10:25,174 So look, I said a prayer. 413 00:10:25,174 --> 00:10:27,209 I told him, hey, 414 00:10:27,209 --> 00:10:29,445 get my son to to to shore. 415 00:10:29,445 --> 00:10:30,246 And I hung up. 416 00:10:30,246 --> 00:10:31,297 I'm sure he couldn't hear me, 417 00:10:31,297 --> 00:10:33,132 but I knew I had to hang up 418 00:10:33,132 --> 00:10:34,266 and get on the phone. 419 00:10:34,266 --> 00:10:36,218 So, you know, I, 420 00:10:36,218 --> 00:10:37,453 I was the president of the firefighters 421 00:10:37,453 --> 00:10:39,171 for many years. I worked with Jackson. 422 00:10:39,171 --> 00:10:39,605 I've worked through 423 00:10:39,605 --> 00:10:40,723 Jackson Hospital Systems. 424 00:10:40,723 --> 00:10:42,258 I worked everybody first. 425 00:10:42,258 --> 00:10:43,492 One of the first people I called was 426 00:10:43,492 --> 00:10:44,827 from the government relations people. 427 00:10:44,827 --> 00:10:45,328 I'm like, 428 00:10:45,328 --> 00:10:46,362 hey, my son got bit by 429 00:10:46,362 --> 00:10:47,413 a shark is in the keys. 430 00:10:47,413 --> 00:10:49,165 I don't know where. 431 00:10:49,165 --> 00:10:50,683 I'm obviously going to get him. 432 00:10:50,683 --> 00:10:52,218 Get him your way. Help me out. 433 00:10:52,218 --> 00:10:53,803 Tell me what we can do. 434 00:10:53,803 --> 00:10:55,254 And they started making phone calls. 435 00:10:55,254 --> 00:10:56,455 I called my fire chief. 436 00:10:56,455 --> 00:10:58,007 I called everybody, 437 00:10:58,007 --> 00:10:59,458 I knew in emergency services 438 00:10:59,458 --> 00:11:00,726 try to get the right people 439 00:11:00,726 --> 00:11:01,527 on on the call 440 00:11:01,527 --> 00:11:03,095 and to make sure that I was 441 00:11:03,095 --> 00:11:04,780 at an army of people helping me. 442

00:11:04,780 --> 00:11:06,365 God, it's my profession. 443 00:11:06,365 --> 00:11:09,051 It's how we operate. Right. And. 444 00:11:09,051 --> 00:11:10,369 And so it was it was good. 445 00:11:10,369 --> 00:11:14,457 At some point I decided to leave, 446 00:11:14,457 --> 00:11:16,409 but I hadn't 447 00:11:16,409 --> 00:11:18,978 I hadn't spoken to them again. 448 00:11:18,978 --> 00:11:20,613 And about 30 minutes later 449 00:11:20,613 --> 00:11:22,298 I get a call back from the kid. 450 00:11:22,298 --> 00:11:23,132 Hey, we made it to shore 451 00:11:23,132 --> 00:11:24,283 and the first thing was, 452 00:11:24,283 --> 00:11:25,284 hey, is Kevin alive? 453 00:11:25,284 --> 00:11:25,768 And he goes, 454 00:11:25,768 --> 00:11:27,970 yeah, he's talking to the thing I check. 455 00:11:27,970 --> 00:11:29,171 Good, good, good. 456 00:11:29,171 --> 00:11:31,257 We're moving in a better direction. 457 00:11:31,257 --> 00:11:32,658 And the rest was just, 458 00:11:32,658 --> 00:11:33,926 you know, 459 00:11:33,926 --> 00:11:34,493 getting him to 460 00:11:34,493 --> 00:11:35,528 Jackson, I was 461 00:11:35,528 --> 00:11:38,164 I was there when he got there and, 462 00:11:38,164 --> 00:11:41,167 you know, in the fire service, 463 00:11:41,484 --> 00:11:43,369 when someone jokes around 464 00:11:43,369 --> 00:11:45,337 in a serious situation, 465 00:11:45,337 --> 00:11:47,456 it is a great thing. 466 00:11:47,456 --> 00:11:51,527 And in the sense that you feel like 467 00:11:51,694 --> 00:11:53,496 if you're not joking, it's 468 00:11:53,496 --> 00:11:54,930 there's no room to joke. Right? 469 00:11:54,930 --> 00:11:56,449 But if you crack a joke 470 00:11:56,449 --> 00:11:57,483 and I say that 471 00:11:57,483 --> 00:11:58,818 because when the helicopter 472 00:11:58,818 --> 00:12:00,936 landed at Jackson South on the helipad, 473 00:12:00,936 --> 00:12:02,288 I don't remember the guy's name, 474 00:12:02,288 --> 00:12:04,607 but I know he was a big guy 475 00:12:05,574 --> 00:12:05,858 with, 476 00:12:05,858 --> 00:12:08,177 like, long hair, long curly hair, like, 477 00:12:08,177 --> 00:12:09,578 you know, and he opened the door. 478 00:12:09,578 --> 00:12:10,613 He goes, you must be dead. 479 00:12:10,613 --> 00:12:11,897 And I was like, check. 480 00:12:11,897 --> 00:12:13,482 That's a good sign. Yeah, yeah. 481 00:12:13,482 --> 00:12:14,767 And and he said, 482 00:12:14,767 --> 00:12:15,451 but it's almost like, 483 00:12:15,451 --> 00:12:16,535 I hate to interrupt you. 484 00:12:16,535 --> 00:12:16,852 You're good. 485 00:12:16,852 --> 00:12:17,853 You're telling the story. 486 00:12:17,853 --> 00:12:18,687 You're you're 487 00:12:18,687 --> 00:12:19,138 going through 488 00:12:19,138 --> 00:12:20,289 this checklist in your head. 489 00:12:20,289 --> 00:12:21,006 And do you feel like 490 00:12:21,006 --> 00:12:22,291 you develop that over 491 00:12:22,291 --> 00:12:24,443 your span of your career of. 492 00:12:24,443 --> 00:12:25,010 Absolutely. 493 00:12:25,010 --> 00:12:26,011 Here's what I need to do first. 494 00:12:26,011 --> 00:12:27,046 Here's what I need to do next. 495 00:12:27,046 --> 00:12:27,963 And you applied it. 496 00:12:27,963 --> 00:12:28,964 Do you feel like you applied 497 00:12:28,964 --> 00:12:30,166 it seamlessly when it came to? 498 00:12:30,166 --> 00:12:31,684 Kevin replied, it better than I thought 499 00:12:31,684 --> 00:12:32,051 I would. 500 00:12:32,051 --> 00:12:33,169 I think that would be the thing. 501 00:12:33,169 --> 00:12:34,336 So the very chief 502 00:12:34,336 --> 00:12:36,288 that was having the class 503 00:12:36,288 --> 00:12:37,373 like a month later, 504 00:12:37,373 --> 00:12:38,691 I ran into him and he's like, yeah, 505 00:12:38,691 --> 00:12:39,208 I was your son. 506 00:12:39,208 --> 00:12:40,693 I'm like, oh, thank God he's good. 507 00:12:40,693 --> 00:12:42,695 And he and I'm like, bro, I don't. 508 00:12:42,695 --> 00:12:43,496 I apologize 509 00:12:43,496 --> 00:12:44,563 if I might have said something 510 00:12:44,563 --> 00:12:45,731 and appropriate in the class. 511 00:12:45,731 --> 00:12:48,250 I honest to God. 512 00:12:48,250 --> 00:12:49,935 And the thing that got me 513 00:12:49,935 --> 00:12:51,137 was he said, Omar, 514 00:12:51,137 --> 00:12:52,488 if anything ever happened to my kids 515 00:12:52,488 --> 00:12:53,372 or my grandkids, 516 00:12:53,372 --> 00:12:57,092 I hope I can be as controlled and 517 00:12:57,293 --> 00:13:00,296 and in the same mindset that you were. 518 00:13:00,296 --> 00:13:00,930 And then I told him, 519 00:13:00,930 --> 00:13:01,447 I said, you know, 520 00:13:01,447 --> 00:13:04,366 I was pleasantly surprised as well. 521 00:13:04,366 --> 00:13:05,367 But I knew 522 00:13:05,367 --> 00:13:06,969 if my son had a chance to live, 523 00:13:06,969 --> 00:13:07,653 I had to take 524 00:13:07,653 --> 00:13:09,455 advantage of every opportunity. 525 00:13:09,455 --> 00:13:10,172 Because the one thing 526 00:13:10,172 --> 00:13:11,090 we know about these types 527 00:13:11,090 --> 00:13:12,725 of calls is one thing. 528 00:13:12,725 --> 00:13:14,727 If one thing goes wrong, 529 00:13:14,727 --> 00:13:15,528 it can mess up, 530 00:13:15,528 --> 00:13:17,847 it can have a bad turnout. 531 00:13:17,847 --> 00:13:19,815 But as I said back then, 532 00:13:19,815 --> 00:13:22,051 and I still believe it to this day, 533 00:13:22,051 --> 00:13:23,335 everything that could have gone wrong, 534 00:13:23,335 --> 00:13:24,403 that they went right. 535 00:13:24,403 --> 00:13:26,405 And so for that we're extremely grateful. 536 00:13:26,405 --> 00:13:28,107 And one of those being, 537 00:13:28,107 --> 00:13:30,176 I was about to say you should be proud, 538 00:13:30,176 --> 00:13:31,410 but that's something that you take 539 00:13:31,410 --> 00:13:32,244 for granted, right? 540 00:13:32,244 --> 00:13:33,529 So we live

in a place 541 00:13:33,529 --> 00:13:36,098 that have a great emergency, 542 00:13:36,098 --> 00:13:38,167 but it's just amazing what to have 543 00:13:38,167 --> 00:13:40,369 with the fight fight department. 544 00:13:40,369 --> 00:13:40,786 Maybe they 545 00:13:40,786 --> 00:13:42,404 for rescue morrow season 546 00:13:42,404 --> 00:13:43,455 that have the helicopters 547 00:13:43,455 --> 00:13:44,857 like the police. 548 00:13:44,857 --> 00:13:47,092 And so every time that we need, 549 00:13:47,092 --> 00:13:48,844 every time they have a policeman down 550 00:13:48,844 --> 00:13:50,246 or they have like a firefighter 551 00:13:50,246 --> 00:13:51,964 enduring on duty 552 00:13:51,964 --> 00:13:53,132 or respond to a school 553 00:13:53,132 --> 00:13:55,451 right to tears or or the students, 554 00:13:55,451 --> 00:13:57,369 the response is amazing. 555 00:13:57,369 --> 00:13:59,471 So the infrastructure is in place, 556 00:13:59,471 --> 00:14:02,374 the personnel is very well trained, 557 00:14:02,374 --> 00:14:02,925 well trained. 558 00:14:02,925 --> 00:14:04,777 And you know that example. 559 00:14:04,777 --> 00:14:05,895 Remember when when they did 560 00:14:05,895 --> 00:14:06,929 the Olympics in Rio? 561 00:14:06,929 --> 00:14:08,447 Yeah, I brought the people from real 562 00:14:08,447 --> 00:14:10,282 to learn with Miami-Dade rescue. 563 00:14:10,282 --> 00:14:11,734 That's incredible. 564 00:14:11,734 --> 00:14:12,568 That's everything happened 565 00:14:12,568 --> 00:14:14,336 the Olympic Games and came from here. 566 00:14:14,336 --> 00:14:16,088 So we are really an example 567 00:14:16,088 --> 00:14:19,158 for our world wide setting. 568 00:14:19,158 --> 00:14:20,326 The example. 569 00:14:20,326 --> 00:14:20,893 Absolutely. 570 00:14:20,893 --> 00:14:22,328 And the partnership of it all too. 571 00:14:22,328 --> 00:14:24,613 I know a lot of EMS and fire folks. 572 00:14:24,613 --> 00:14:26,098 We work with them on the PR side, 573 00:14:26,098 --> 00:14:29,134 but between trauma and emergency, 574 00:14:29,134 --> 00:14:30,369 there's a camaraderie. 575 00:14:30,369 --> 00:14:32,171 Anytime that we're in the emergency room 576 00:14:32,171 --> 00:14:34,857 just doing non-medical stuff. 577 00:14:34,857 --> 00:14:36,458 When the EMS comes through, 578 00:14:36,458 --> 00:14:38,811 it is like a brotherhood there. 579 00:14:38,811 --> 00:14:40,896 It really is a complete teamwork 580 00:14:40,896 --> 00:14:43,165 and we all realize that it's 581 00:14:43,165 --> 00:14:45,167 the situation is much greater than any, 582 00:14:45,167 --> 00:14:45,885 any of us alone. 583 00:14:45,885 --> 00:14:47,603 But it takes all of us to be successful. 584 00:14:47,603 --> 00:14:48,654 So I think there's 585 00:14:48,654 --> 00:14:49,805 just a great appreciation 586 00:14:49,805 --> 00:14:50,856 on both sides of that. 587 00:14:50,856 --> 00:14:51,056 You know, 588 00:14:51,056 --> 00:14:53,576 whether you're the doctor, the, the EMS, 589 00:14:53,576 --> 00:14:55,294 the paramedics or you're the nurse 590 00:14:55,294 --> 00:14:57,563 and the doctor, you could see it. 591 00:14:57,563 --> 00:14:58,964 Afterwards, you know, 592 00:14:58,964 --> 00:14:59,648 things are different. 593 00:14:59,648 --> 00:15:00,683 But when we're in the game, 594 00:15:00,683 --> 00:15:01,767 when we're about to do something 595 00:15:01,767 --> 00:15:03,485 that's going to affect the outcome, 596 00:15:03,485 --> 00:15:04,970 the lives that we have to save, 597 00:15:04,970 --> 00:15:06,405 that need to be saved. 598 00:15:06,405 --> 00:15:07,773 I believe that that focus 599 00:15:07,773 --> 00:15:09,842 is the very best ever. 600 00:15:09,842 --> 00:15:10,843 You have the same goal. 601 00:15:10,843 --> 00:15:12,177 Absolutely. And that's 602 00:15:13,696 --> 00:15:15,447 what he did, is not because 603 00:15:15,447 --> 00:15:17,283 he was trained to do that. Right. 604 00:15:17,283 --> 00:15:20,286 So I and I need to applaud in a lot 605 00:15:20,286 --> 00:15:22,855 because being a dad, seeing a situation, 606 00:15:22,855 --> 00:15:24,123 a sound like that. Right. 607 00:15:24,123 --> 00:15:25,007 I pray every day. 608 00:15:25,007 --> 00:15:26,258 So I don't see my kids 609 00:15:26,258 --> 00:15:27,776 in a bad situation. Right. 610 00:15:27,776 --> 00:15:29,211 The only thing that I can 611 00:15:29,211 --> 00:15:29,962 that keeps you together, 612 00:15:29,962 --> 00:15:31,614 I can do anything right? 613 00:15:31,614 --> 00:15:33,248 Except my kids. Right? 614 00:15:33,248 --> 00:15:34,817 In that situation, 615 00:15:34,817 --> 00:15:36,018 the way he managed that, 616 00:15:36,018 --> 00:15:38,203 the way he supported, he had and, 617 00:15:38,203 --> 00:15:41,206 you know, and the friendship, 618 00:15:41,206 --> 00:15:42,858 his injury was massive, 619 00:15:42,858 --> 00:15:43,208 you know, 620 00:15:43,208 --> 00:15:44,326 and he did a lot of work, 621 00:15:44,326 --> 00:15:45,978 multiple surgeries, physical therapy. 622 00:15:45,978 --> 00:15:46,295 Right. 623 00:15:46,295 --> 00:15:47,730 And he was always texting me, 624 00:15:47,730 --> 00:15:49,131 giving up a date. 625 00:15:49,131 --> 00:15:51,567 And when everything was almost done, 626 00:15:51,567 --> 00:15:52,618 they were traveling in Europe 627 00:15:52,618 --> 00:15:53,736 and they started saying 628 00:15:53,736 --> 00:15:54,687 he was walking to a cane. 629 00:15:54,687 --> 00:15:57,323 And then I know they can start to run. 630 00:15:57,323 --> 00:15:57,856 You know, 631 00:15:57,856 --> 00:15:58,891 that's the kind of relationship 632 00:15:58,891 --> 00:16:00,125 that you became 633 00:16:00,125 --> 00:16:02,978 because he was was his kid 634 00:16:02,978 --> 00:16:05,047 and he was going above 635 00:16:05,047 --> 00:16:05,965 and beyond to the right. 636 00:16:05,965 --> 00:16:07,666 And I really applaud you because.

637 00:16:07,666 --> 00:16:08,534 Oh, appreciate your time. 638 00:16:08,534 --> 00:16:10,569 I mean, he's a man, you know. Yes, yes. 639 00:16:10,569 --> 00:16:12,087 Well, let's talk about this Europe trip 640 00:16:12,087 --> 00:16:13,622 because and 641 00:16:13,622 --> 00:16:16,175 and let's even go back further. Right. 642 00:16:16,175 --> 00:16:18,610 You give it by a shark on a Thursday. 643 00:16:18,610 --> 00:16:19,812 By what Friday? 644 00:16:19,812 --> 00:16:20,612 Saturday 645 00:16:20,612 --> 00:16:21,897 you're on media interviews 646 00:16:21,897 --> 00:16:23,165 and getting mixed up and. 647 00:16:23,165 --> 00:16:23,415 Yeah. 648 00:16:23,415 --> 00:16:25,968 So basically, I mean, getting flown in 649 00:16:27,202 --> 00:16:28,287 from the Seven Mile Bridge 650 00:16:28,287 --> 00:16:30,572 to the Jackson South. Yeah. 651 00:16:30,572 --> 00:16:32,808 Obviously straight into surgery. 652 00:16:32,808 --> 00:16:35,611 ICU was able to have a couple friends 653 00:16:35,611 --> 00:16:37,212 come in, you know, 654 00:16:37,212 --> 00:16:38,964 I guess to, like, calm me down and, like, 655 00:16:38,964 --> 00:16:40,733 you know, just to feel a little normal. 656 00:16:40,733 --> 00:16:41,483 Exactly. 657 00:16:41,483 --> 00:16:43,369 We should we should mention 658 00:16:43,369 --> 00:16:44,670 Lieutenant Caesar Moreton 659 00:16:44,670 --> 00:16:47,573 was the officer on scene from back to. 660 00:16:47,573 --> 00:16:47,806 No. 661 00:16:47,806 --> 00:16:48,924 But, I mean, he went to visit you 662 00:16:48,924 --> 00:16:51,010 that first day, which we have a picture. 663 00:16:51,010 --> 00:16:53,328 He was the lieutenant on the on the scene 664 00:16:53,328 --> 00:16:55,014 that was at the dock 665 00:16:55,014 --> 00:16:57,816 waiting for me there. 666 00:16:57,816 --> 00:16:59,685 And I don't know if you kind of 667 00:16:59,685 --> 00:17:00,486 skipped over that part, 668 00:17:00,486 --> 00:17:01,603 but kind of saying 669 00:17:01,603 --> 00:17:03,172 how you skipped over that part. 670 00:17:03,172 --> 00:17:03,722 Danny. 671 00:17:03,722 --> 00:17:05,174 Well, I was I was getting work done. 672 00:17:05,174 --> 00:17:06,058 I was like, 673 00:17:06,058 --> 00:17:07,843 listen, let's hit all the parts. 674 00:17:07,843 --> 00:17:08,527 So interesting. 675 00:17:08,527 --> 00:17:10,529 When Danny called me to tell me, 676 00:17:10,529 --> 00:17:11,730 hey, we're back on scene, 677 00:17:11,730 --> 00:17:13,882 I asked him, hey, is Kevin, is he alive? 678 00:17:13,882 --> 00:17:14,850 And he goes, yeah, he's 679 00:17:14,850 --> 00:17:15,684 talking to the paramedics. 680 00:17:15,684 --> 00:17:17,252 And I go, let me talk to the officer 681 00:17:17,252 --> 00:17:17,736 now, now, 682 00:17:17,736 --> 00:17:19,138 now I'm looking at talking peer 683 00:17:19,138 --> 00:17:19,805 to peer, right. 684 00:17:19,805 --> 00:17:21,006 Officer to officer. 685 00:17:21,006 --> 00:17:23,442 But obviously as my son. 686 00:17:23,442 --> 00:17:26,011 So he he goes to hand him the phone 687 00:17:26,011 --> 00:17:27,362 and he says, 688 00:17:28,614 --> 00:17:31,417 sir, it's his dad now, 689 00:17:31,417 --> 00:17:32,167 you know, 690 00:17:32,167 --> 00:17:33,569 as a firefighter 691 00:17:33,569 --> 00:17:34,853 captain on the fire department, 692 00:17:34,853 --> 00:17:36,405 I appreciate what he said next, 693 00:17:36,405 --> 00:17:38,524 which was not right now. 694 00:17:38,524 --> 00:17:40,609 And the truth is that we don't 695 00:17:40,609 --> 00:17:41,844 I didn't want to interfere 696 00:17:41,844 --> 00:17:43,896 with whatever thought process or things 697 00:17:43,896 --> 00:17:44,763 he was going through, 698 00:17:44,763 --> 00:17:46,215 and to have to explain that 699 00:17:46,215 --> 00:17:48,016 to someone who is not a firefighter, 700 00:17:48,016 --> 00:17:49,885 it takes a little bit more focus 701 00:17:49,885 --> 00:17:51,203 because you've got to be careful, 702 00:17:51,203 --> 00:17:51,804 you know, to 703 00:17:51,804 --> 00:17:53,138 to give the right information. 704 00:17:53,138 --> 00:17:54,973 And, and there's a lot of developments 705 00:17:54,973 --> 00:17:55,524 going on. Right. 706 00:17:55,524 --> 00:17:57,209 So you always have to be very careful. 707 00:17:57,209 --> 00:18:00,212 Well, the kid in his infinite wisdom, 708 00:18:00,212 --> 00:18:01,497 he was like, This is dad. 709 00:18:01,497 --> 00:18:02,765 When he said, not right now. 710 00:18:02,765 --> 00:18:04,450 He instead of I was waiting for him 711 00:18:04,450 --> 00:18:05,451 to put the phone back on and I 712 00:18:05,451 --> 00:18:06,568 go, it's okay, I understand. 713 00:18:06,568 --> 00:18:09,288 But he goes, no, man, he's a firefighter. 714 00:18:09,288 --> 00:18:11,457 So then I think the lieutenant was like, 715 00:18:11,457 --> 00:18:12,574 okay, I can tell this guy 716 00:18:12,574 --> 00:18:13,492 real quick what's going on? 717 00:18:13,492 --> 00:18:15,127 I don't have to explain it. Right, right. 718 00:18:15,127 --> 00:18:16,695 So he gets on the phone, he's like, 719 00:18:16,695 --> 00:18:18,814 Lieutenant, Lieutenant Moreton and I go, 720 00:18:18,814 --> 00:18:19,765 hey, Lieutenant. 721 00:18:19,765 --> 00:18:20,332 Good afternoon. 722 00:18:20,332 --> 00:18:21,533 This is Captain Blanco 723 00:18:21,533 --> 00:18:22,885 with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. 724 00:18:22,885 --> 00:18:25,087 And he says, Omar. 725 00:18:27,489 --> 00:18:28,607 How cool. 726 00:18:28,607 --> 00:18:29,608 What are the chances? 727 00:18:29,608 --> 00:18:30,092 Yeah. 728 00:18:30,092 --> 00:18:31,894 Now, I had to apologize 729 00:18:31,894 --> 00:18:32,978 because I go, hey, brother, 730 00:18:32,978 --> 00:18:34,563 I wouldn't know my dad right now 731 00:18:34,563 --> 00:18:35,931 if I talked to him on the phone, 732 00:18:35,931 --> 00:18:37,332 so you'll have to excuse me. 733

00:18:37,332 --> 00:18:38,851 He goes, no, I completely understand, 734 00:18:38,851 --> 00:18:40,536 but what he did say. 735 00:18:40,536 --> 00:18:42,171 And you'll appreciate this too. 736 00:18:42,171 --> 00:18:44,606 You don't want to call you, talk to you. 737 00:18:44,606 --> 00:18:46,208 You know, he did say. 738 00:18:46,208 --> 00:18:46,925 He goes, hey, brother, 739 00:18:46,925 --> 00:18:48,694 I got on board 740 00:18:48,694 --> 00:18:51,213 and I got my own tourniquet on board. 741 00:18:51,213 --> 00:18:53,849 And what I knew by those few words 742 00:18:53,849 --> 00:18:54,449 was that 743 00:18:54,449 --> 00:18:56,418 this guy and his team 744 00:18:56,418 --> 00:18:58,370 are the absolutely best. 745 00:18:58,370 --> 00:18:58,687 Wow. 746 00:18:58,687 --> 00:18:59,404 That, you know, 747 00:18:59,404 --> 00:19:00,122 they're giving him 748 00:19:00,122 --> 00:19:00,706 the actual 749 00:19:00,706 --> 00:19:01,657 best treatment 750 00:19:01,657 --> 00:19:03,525 and is something that's new 751 00:19:03,525 --> 00:19:04,376 to the fire service 752 00:19:04,376 --> 00:19:05,377 at the time he got busy. 753 00:19:05,377 --> 00:19:06,762 Well, explain what it is actually. 754 00:19:06,762 --> 00:19:07,446 It's a drug. 755 00:19:07,446 --> 00:19:09,848 It's a medication we give IV. 756 00:19:09,848 --> 00:19:12,451 There's very strict guidelines 757 00:19:12,451 --> 00:19:13,802 when you use it. 758 00:19:13,802 --> 00:19:15,204 Obviously he met the criteria, 759 00:19:15,204 --> 00:19:16,455 but if you're bleeding 760 00:19:16,455 --> 00:19:18,090 and they're worried 761 00:19:18,090 --> 00:19:19,725 about controlling the bleeding, 762 00:19:19,725 --> 00:19:20,893 they give you this medication 763 00:19:20,893 --> 00:19:21,527 because it helps. 764 00:19:21,527 --> 00:19:21,894 And doc, 765 00:19:21,894 --> 00:19:23,495 you might be able to say 766 00:19:23,495 --> 00:19:25,764 more the medical terminology, 767 00:19:25,764 --> 00:19:27,166 but it helps with the clotting factor. 768 00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:27,416 Right. 769 00:19:27,416 --> 00:19:29,218 So that you're you're 770 00:19:29,218 --> 00:19:29,935 so you don't bleed out. 771 00:19:29,935 --> 00:19:31,003 Any potential bleeds 772 00:19:31,003 --> 00:19:32,287 that you may not see will be 773 00:19:32,287 --> 00:19:34,940 will will be controlled. That correct. 774 00:19:34,940 --> 00:19:36,008 I would just say 775 00:19:36,008 --> 00:19:37,042 that we have here 776 00:19:37,042 --> 00:19:39,094 in Florida, in South Florida, 777 00:19:39,094 --> 00:19:41,647 Dade Morrow, Miami, etc., 778 00:19:41,647 --> 00:19:43,448 the best protocol guidelines 779 00:19:43,448 --> 00:19:45,250 that you have in the world right now, 780 00:19:45,250 --> 00:19:46,618 every single new update, 781 00:19:46,618 --> 00:19:49,004 new drug, a new guideline that happens. 782 00:19:49,004 --> 00:19:50,772 We are one of the first to implement. 783 00:19:50,772 --> 00:19:51,256 Wow. 784 00:19:51,256 --> 00:19:52,608 So I would say that 785 00:19:52,608 --> 00:19:54,610 if anybody has a big injury here 786 00:19:54,610 --> 00:19:55,811 in Florida, right, 787 00:19:55,811 --> 00:19:57,246 coming to the trauma centers 788 00:19:57,246 --> 00:19:58,697 and starting to the hospital, 789 00:19:58,697 --> 00:20:01,683 then all the way to drama centers, then 790 00:20:01,767 --> 00:20:03,018 you had the best chance. 791 00:20:03,018 --> 00:20:03,886 That's incredible. 792 00:20:03,886 --> 00:20:05,137 That's that's important to everybody 793 00:20:05,137 --> 00:20:06,371 to know that because they they 794 00:20:06,371 --> 00:20:07,923 not only the equipment, 795 00:20:07,923 --> 00:20:09,725 the medications and the pressure, 796 00:20:09,725 --> 00:20:10,726 the training 797 00:20:10,726 --> 00:20:12,377 that goes from first responders 798 00:20:12,377 --> 00:20:15,364 to fire fighters, the police, the 799 00:20:15,447 --> 00:20:16,565 the people in the house 800 00:20:16,565 --> 00:20:18,934 or the physicians, the nurses. 801 00:20:18,934 --> 00:20:21,003 It's one thing that works 802 00:20:21,003 --> 00:20:22,537 well from minute zero. 803 00:20:22,537 --> 00:20:25,457 But, you know, and and that's that's 804 00:20:25,457 --> 00:20:27,643 what's really special. That's incredible. 805 00:20:27,643 --> 00:20:29,177 And so let's let's keep going through 806 00:20:29,177 --> 00:20:29,978 your story, Kevin, 807 00:20:29,978 --> 00:20:32,698 because we had talked about 808 00:20:32,698 --> 00:20:34,166 a little bit of the in between, 809 00:20:34,166 --> 00:20:35,567 right where you were at Omar. 810 00:20:35,567 --> 00:20:37,052 Now let's say we're at Jackson 811 00:20:37,052 --> 00:20:38,003 South and we're meeting you, 812 00:20:38,003 --> 00:20:40,005 Doctor Martos, for the first time. 813 00:20:40,005 --> 00:20:42,457 What do you assess first? 814 00:20:42,457 --> 00:20:43,725 Shark bites are not common, right? 815 00:20:43,725 --> 00:20:45,494 I think we all. For him, it is 816 00:20:46,695 --> 00:20:47,496 amazing work. 817 00:20:47,496 --> 00:20:49,131 But what's the first thing you look for? 818 00:20:49,131 --> 00:20:50,132 We've stopped the bleeding. 819 00:20:50,132 --> 00:20:51,250 But what comes next? 820 00:20:51,250 --> 00:20:53,802 The first thing, he stopped the bleeding 821 00:20:53,802 --> 00:20:54,886 he had. 822 00:20:54,886 --> 00:20:56,204 He's a strong man, right? 823 00:20:56,204 --> 00:20:57,489 Yeah, and a lot of muscles. 824 00:20:57,489 --> 00:20:59,658 And he lost a lot of issue. 825 00:20:59,658 --> 00:21:02,327 Had was was a big mouth, big fat. 826 00:21:02,327 --> 00:21:03,045 Right. 827 00:21:03,045 --> 00:21:04,646 And then you need to be sure 828 00:21:04,646 --> 00:21:05,447 that he's okay. 829 00:21:05,447 --> 00:21:06,448 Stop the bleeding. 830 00:21:06,448 --> 00:21:09,451 If you need blood to give buttons, etc..

831 00:21:09,685 --> 00:21:11,603 And you need to clean the wound 832 00:21:11,603 --> 00:21:13,005 and they need to start 833 00:21:13,005 --> 00:21:13,972 to do all the work, 834 00:21:13,972 --> 00:21:14,523 you need to see that 835 00:21:14,523 --> 00:21:15,574 there's a vascular injury. 836 00:21:15,574 --> 00:21:15,974 There's a 837 00:21:15,974 --> 00:21:18,043 there's a tendon injury, muscle injuries, 838 00:21:18,043 --> 00:21:20,562 what's need to go for infection. Right. 839 00:21:20,562 --> 00:21:21,530 That's something 840 00:21:21,530 --> 00:21:22,965 that you prevent infection. 841 00:21:22,965 --> 00:21:23,448 Wow. 842 00:21:23,448 --> 00:21:25,250 There's a lot of things that can go wrong 843 00:21:25,250 --> 00:21:27,085 even after stopping the bleeding. 844 00:21:27,085 --> 00:21:29,254 But again that's why you have a system. 845 00:21:29,254 --> 00:21:30,889 Something's the precursor. 846 00:21:30,889 --> 00:21:33,125 They have protocols guidelines in in the 847 00:21:33,125 --> 00:21:33,976 in the hospital. 848 00:21:33,976 --> 00:21:35,444 It's the same thing 849 00:21:35,444 --> 00:21:37,129 about a pit stop for formula one. 850 00:21:37,129 --> 00:21:39,047 Absolutely. It's the same thing. 851 00:21:39,047 --> 00:21:41,817 We we have the system put it in 852 00:21:41,817 --> 00:21:43,935 place, have the priorities 853 00:21:43,935 --> 00:21:45,721 to stabilize him. Issue that 854 00:21:47,005 --> 00:21:48,657 you need bloody blood, 855 00:21:48,657 --> 00:21:49,458 stop the bleeding 856 00:21:49,458 --> 00:21:51,126 and then go to surgery 857 00:21:51,126 --> 00:21:53,211 to address the main problems. 858 00:21:53,211 --> 00:21:55,047 Wow. Well, and that's a gold mine. 859 00:21:55,047 --> 00:21:56,932 I mean, EMS now, right? 860 00:21:56,932 --> 00:21:57,616 That's a gold mine. 861 00:21:57,616 --> 00:21:59,534 A doctor that at his level, 862 00:21:59,534 --> 00:22:01,803 appreciates the things that lead up to 863 00:22:01,803 --> 00:22:02,938 when he gets the patient 864 00:22:02,938 --> 00:22:04,289 and, and kind of, 865 00:22:04,289 --> 00:22:06,174 like, engages in that conversation 866 00:22:06,174 --> 00:22:07,442 because it's, it's 867 00:22:07,442 --> 00:22:09,528 as a guy out in operations, 868 00:22:09,528 --> 00:22:10,762 it's pleasant to always hear 869 00:22:10,762 --> 00:22:12,047 Doctor Martel's perspective. 870 00:22:12,047 --> 00:22:13,048 And I believe it's shared 871 00:22:13,048 --> 00:22:14,132 amongst your peers. 872 00:22:14,132 --> 00:22:15,450 But I'm going to flip the script 873 00:22:15,450 --> 00:22:18,337 on the state rep position. 874 00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:18,603 You know, 875 00:22:18,603 --> 00:22:20,055 there's a thing called, you know, 876 00:22:20,055 --> 00:22:21,173 you talk about protocols, 877 00:22:21,173 --> 00:22:24,693 but we have the Florida Stroke Registry, 878 00:22:24,726 --> 00:22:26,211 which are familiar with. 879 00:22:26,211 --> 00:22:28,096 And I just went this week 880 00:22:28,096 --> 00:22:31,083 to present a check from the state to the 881 00:22:31,733 --> 00:22:32,851 stroke registry. 882 00:22:32,851 --> 00:22:33,752 And the 883 00:22:33,752 --> 00:22:35,137 the correlation to 884 00:22:35,137 --> 00:22:36,054 what he's saying is 885 00:22:36,054 --> 00:22:36,571 this is something 886 00:22:36,571 --> 00:22:38,490 that was started in 2014. 887 00:22:38,490 --> 00:22:40,575 And because of the data 888 00:22:40,575 --> 00:22:42,577 that we have collected in the experience 889 00:22:42,577 --> 00:22:44,162 of all of us working together, 890 00:22:44,162 --> 00:22:47,249 your chances of surviving a stroke today 891 00:22:47,332 --> 00:22:49,818 are much better than ever 892 00:22:49,818 --> 00:22:50,952 in recorded history. 893 00:22:50,952 --> 00:22:54,089 we deserve that because around 2010. 894 00:22:54,206 --> 00:22:54,973 Something like that. 895 00:22:54,973 --> 00:22:57,926 1112 I was working with 896 00:22:57,926 --> 00:22:58,844 the state of Florida 897 00:22:58,844 --> 00:22:59,361 to implement 898 00:22:59,361 --> 00:23:01,213 the Telemedicine Response Center, 899 00:23:01,213 --> 00:23:03,648 so I did like 20 trips to the keys. 900 00:23:03,648 --> 00:23:05,450 I knew I needed three horses 901 00:23:05,450 --> 00:23:06,685 because implement 902 00:23:06,685 --> 00:23:07,719 you have like a telemedicine 903 00:23:07,719 --> 00:23:08,520 station, right? 904 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:08,904 In a way 905 00:23:08,904 --> 00:23:09,971 it has somebody injury 906 00:23:09,971 --> 00:23:11,323 in the Lower Keys Medical Center 907 00:23:11,323 --> 00:23:13,091 or Fisherman's. 908 00:23:13,091 --> 00:23:16,211 They would transfer the patient to Miami 909 00:23:16,328 --> 00:23:17,079 right there. Right. 910 00:23:17,079 --> 00:23:20,248 And then and then we would receive report 911 00:23:20,282 --> 00:23:22,134 to the cameras 912 00:23:22,134 --> 00:23:23,652 to know what the patient was having. 913 00:23:23,652 --> 00:23:24,686 You did some exercises 914 00:23:24,686 --> 00:23:27,038 with Air Force Base in Key West as well. 915 00:23:27,038 --> 00:23:29,574 So I knew very well the hospitals. 916 00:23:29,574 --> 00:23:31,159 And when they did 917 00:23:31,159 --> 00:23:32,961 the first test or telemedicine stroke, 918 00:23:32,961 --> 00:23:35,130 I was there. Really? Yeah. 919 00:23:35,130 --> 00:23:36,481 You have to have people 920 00:23:36,481 --> 00:23:37,082 with neuro 921 00:23:37,082 --> 00:23:39,568 neurology and and Jackson Memorial. 922 00:23:39,568 --> 00:23:40,519 They're doing the assessment 923 00:23:40,519 --> 00:23:42,604 for stroke on the keys. 924 00:23:42,604 --> 00:23:44,890 And then they would send that information 925 00:23:44,890 --> 00:23:47,409 through video real time to to there. 926 00:23:47,409 --> 00:23:48,210 And that's incredible. 927 00:23:48,210 --> 00:23:48,894 And it's

amazing. 928 00:23:48,894 --> 00:23:50,162 I have been able 929 00:23:50,162 --> 00:23:51,363 to look at that program too. 930 00:23:51,363 --> 00:23:53,165 And I think, my goodness, 931 00:23:53,165 --> 00:23:54,599 we're just so blessed. 932 00:23:54,599 --> 00:23:56,134 I think down here 933 00:23:56,134 --> 00:23:57,002 compared to other areas 934 00:23:57,002 --> 00:23:58,170 that we have all these things 935 00:23:58,170 --> 00:23:59,054 available to us 936 00:23:59,054 --> 00:23:59,721 and the range 937 00:23:59,721 --> 00:24:01,239 from stroke to shark bite, 938 00:24:01,239 --> 00:24:04,126 I mean, it sells itself right now. 939 00:24:04,126 --> 00:24:05,127 Kevin, I want to talk to you 940 00:24:05,127 --> 00:24:06,445 about the recovery process 941 00:24:06,445 --> 00:24:08,079 because you're young, right? 942 00:24:08,079 --> 00:24:10,999 You're strong. You're told absolutely. 943 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,051 You have a chunk of your leg 944 00:24:13,051 --> 00:24:13,652 bitten out, 945 00:24:13,652 --> 00:24:15,370 and now you have to literally 946 00:24:15,370 --> 00:24:17,205 stop everything in your life and recover. 947 00:24:17,205 --> 00:24:19,007 What was that like? 948 00:24:19,007 --> 00:24:21,693 The beginning was very difficult 949 00:24:21,693 --> 00:24:24,679 in the way of 950 00:24:24,813 --> 00:24:26,331 it's on the bottom of my leg. 951 00:24:26,331 --> 00:24:27,682 It's on the top of my leg. 952 00:24:27,682 --> 00:24:29,601 So the first week, 953 00:24:29,601 --> 00:24:30,652 maybe two weeks at home, 954 00:24:30,652 --> 00:24:32,721 was very stressful in the way of 955 00:24:32,721 --> 00:24:34,406 there was no point of comfort. 956 00:24:34,406 --> 00:24:37,359 So sitting down, standing up, 957 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:38,210 laying on my stomach, 958 00:24:38,210 --> 00:24:39,528 laying on my back, laying on my side, 959 00:24:39,528 --> 00:24:40,412 there was never a point, 960 00:24:40,412 --> 00:24:40,612 you know, 961 00:24:40,612 --> 00:24:41,329 when you get home from work 962 00:24:41,329 --> 00:24:41,730 and you're like, 963 00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:42,681 oh yeah, 964 00:24:42,681 --> 00:24:45,133 there was never a sense of comfort, 965 00:24:45,133 --> 00:24:45,934 you know, 966 00:24:45,934 --> 00:24:47,135 You just had the FIFA World 967 00:24:47,135 --> 00:24:48,119 Cup here, right? Yes. 968 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:49,254 You know the soccer players 969 00:24:49,254 --> 00:24:50,255 and have a muscle injury. 970 00:24:50,255 --> 00:24:51,206 Sometimes the one inch 971 00:24:51,206 --> 00:24:52,807 they grow is a lot of pain. 972 00:24:52,807 --> 00:24:56,528 He had like a big chunk of muscles apart 973 00:24:56,528 --> 00:24:57,779 and missing etc. 974 00:24:57,779 --> 00:24:59,331 was just very really painful. 975 00:24:59,331 --> 00:25:00,248 You know, 976 00:25:00,248 --> 00:25:02,083 they must bleed and then make fibrous. 977 00:25:02,083 --> 00:25:04,286 Then he started to try to walk again. 978 00:25:04,286 --> 00:25:04,886 Brooks, 979 00:25:04,886 --> 00:25:05,687 you can't tell 980 00:25:05,687 --> 00:25:06,771 how long it will take you to 981 00:25:06,771 --> 00:25:07,656 walk again, right? 982 00:25:07,656 --> 00:25:10,091 So I mean, to get back to perfectly 983 00:25:10,091 --> 00:25:11,276 walking was definitely a couple 984 00:25:11,276 --> 00:25:11,610 of months. 985 00:25:11,610 --> 00:25:12,811 I mean, 986 00:25:12,811 --> 00:25:15,213 it was the hematoma was not comfortable. 987 00:25:15,213 --> 00:25:16,364 I mean, 988 00:25:16,364 --> 00:25:17,015 think about like 989 00:25:17,015 --> 00:25:18,934 just black jellybeans coming out, like, 990 00:25:18,934 --> 00:25:20,085 I know what it looks like. 991 00:25:20,085 --> 00:25:22,287 It's it's not it's not slightly fun. 992 00:25:22,287 --> 00:25:23,722 So I guess the beginning was tough, 993 00:25:23,722 --> 00:25:24,322 you know, 994 00:25:25,574 --> 00:25:26,641 of the fact that, 995 00:25:26,641 --> 00:25:27,759 again, there was no comfort. 996 00:25:27,759 --> 00:25:29,244 There was no, like, point 997 00:25:29,244 --> 00:25:30,295 where I could actually relax. 998 00:25:30,295 --> 00:25:31,213 But, you know, 999 00:25:31,213 --> 00:25:34,216 I had great support from family, friends 1000 00:25:34,249 --> 00:25:35,283 to be able to like, 1001 00:25:35,283 --> 00:25:37,402 kind of get my mind off of it 1002 00:25:37,402 --> 00:25:39,254 because I was going to say mentally too. 1003 00:25:39,254 --> 00:25:39,888 That's no. Yeah. 1004 00:25:39,888 --> 00:25:41,206 It was a very important factor. 1005 00:25:41,206 --> 00:25:43,275 I mean, he had a good support network. 1006 00:25:43,275 --> 00:25:44,175 He's a kid 1007 00:25:44,175 --> 00:25:45,644 that went to Columbus here in Miami. 1008 00:25:45,644 --> 00:25:47,128 So, oh, Columbus 1009 00:25:47,128 --> 00:25:48,563 Network was great, was awesome. 1010 00:25:48,563 --> 00:25:49,648 Yeah, yeah. Fantastic. 1011 00:25:49,648 --> 00:25:52,651 Even the the even the coach, 1012 00:25:52,684 --> 00:25:53,602 coach Dukes, 1013 00:25:53,602 --> 00:25:55,854 some great guy from Columbus. 1014 00:25:55,854 --> 00:25:57,489 They had a fishing club 1015 00:25:57,489 --> 00:25:59,324 when Kevin attended Columbus, 1016 00:25:59,324 --> 00:26:00,609 and Kevin and his friends 1017 00:26:00,609 --> 00:26:01,893 convinced him to do a spear 1018 00:26:01,893 --> 00:26:02,961 phishing club, 1019 00:26:02,961 --> 00:26:04,012 which is ultimately, 1020 00:26:04,012 --> 00:26:05,130 I believe, when 1021 00:26:05,130 --> 00:26:07,849 it started, because what they did is they 1022 00:26:07,849 --> 00:26:09,534 the program was built in teaching them 1023 00:26:09,534 --> 00:26:11,770 the safety of the water getting. 1024 00:26:11,770 --> 00:26:13,521 So all these boys that he was with 1025 00:26:13,521 --> 00:26:14,372 were actually part 1026

00:26:14,372 --> 00:26:15,890 of this whole initial thing. 1027 00:26:15,890 --> 00:26:18,093 So how they handled it overall, 1028 00:26:18,093 --> 00:26:19,361 whether they were freaking out 1029 00:26:19,361 --> 00:26:21,162 or not, was textbook 1030 00:26:21,162 --> 00:26:22,013 what how you handle these 1031 00:26:22,013 --> 00:26:22,814 kind of situations. 1032 00:26:22,814 --> 00:26:24,733 Because if it wasn't for them, 1033 00:26:24,733 --> 00:26:25,533 kind of keeping their cool. 1034 00:26:25,533 --> 00:26:26,735 The one thing Kevin didn't say is 1035 00:26:26,735 --> 00:26:27,535 after he screamed 1036 00:26:27,535 --> 00:26:28,970 and the shark bit 1037 00:26:28,970 --> 00:26:30,722 the story from I think it was Danny 1038 00:26:30,722 --> 00:26:33,875 who was behind you, was that he was 1039 00:26:33,892 --> 00:26:35,160 Chris was Chris. 1040 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:36,011 Where was it? 1041 00:26:36,011 --> 00:26:36,845 He froze 1042 00:26:36,845 --> 00:26:37,963 and he freaked out 1043 00:26:37,963 --> 00:26:38,763 because he saw what happened. 1044 00:26:38,763 --> 00:26:40,532 He goes, I froze for like five seconds. 1045 00:26:40,532 --> 00:26:42,767 And then I saw Kevin 1046 00:26:42,767 --> 00:26:44,719 trying to kick with one leg. 1047 00:26:44,719 --> 00:26:46,204 And then I realized, 1048 00:26:46,204 --> 00:26:47,606 oh crap, I've got to help. 1049 00:26:47,606 --> 00:26:48,840 So he came behind him, 1050 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:49,691 put his arms around him, 1051 00:26:49,691 --> 00:26:51,693 and they all swam up together. Wow. 1052 00:26:51,693 --> 00:26:53,445 But but I think even 1053 00:26:53,445 --> 00:26:55,447 and even those two boys, 1054 00:26:55,447 --> 00:26:57,649 when they showed up to the hospital, 1055 00:26:57,649 --> 00:26:59,134 you know, they were pale. 1056 00:26:59,134 --> 00:27:00,535 They were like. 1057 00:27:00,535 --> 00:27:01,803 They did they 1058 00:27:01,803 --> 00:27:02,370 they were 1059 00:27:02,370 --> 00:27:05,323 they were just completely in shock 1060 00:27:05,323 --> 00:27:05,924 and on there. 1061 00:27:05,924 --> 00:27:06,925 Forget Doctor Martin, 1062 00:27:06,925 --> 00:27:08,009 you might remember this, 1063 00:27:08,009 --> 00:27:09,327 but when Doctor Marcus came 1064 00:27:09,327 --> 00:27:11,279 in, I introduced him to the two boys. 1065 00:27:11,279 --> 00:27:12,130 I said, hey, doc, 1066 00:27:12,130 --> 00:27:12,881 these are the two boys 1067 00:27:12,881 --> 00:27:14,015 that were with the help, saved 1068 00:27:14,015 --> 00:27:15,400 my son's life, were with him in the water 1069 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,002 and he looks down at their hills. 1070 00:27:17,002 --> 00:27:19,287 You two would have lost your legs 1071 00:27:19,287 --> 00:27:19,721 because. 1072 00:27:19,721 --> 00:27:21,840 Because they were much lazier. 1073 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:22,724 We won't call them 1074 00:27:22,724 --> 00:27:23,325 chicken legs, 1075

00:27:23,325 --> 00:27:25,443 but they were strong that day. 1076 00:27:25,443 --> 00:27:26,561 Yeah. 1077 00:27:26,561 --> 00:27:27,529 I mean, if you think about it, 1078 00:27:27,529 --> 00:27:30,015 they drove the boat to the restaurant. 1079 00:27:30,015 --> 00:27:32,484 Yeah, they loaded me up, 1080 00:27:32,484 --> 00:27:33,652 put me on a helicopter 1081 00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:36,454 and kind of just said, like, see ya. 1082 00:27:36,454 --> 00:27:39,124 So they're like, Chuck full of blood. 1083 00:27:39,124 --> 00:27:39,607 And I'm sure 1084 00:27:39,607 --> 00:27:41,726 this is their first experience in 1085 00:27:41,726 --> 00:27:43,762 and any medical setting the 1086 00:27:43,762 --> 00:27:45,280 they get dropped off, they drop me off 1087 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:46,014 and they kind of like, 1088 00:27:46,014 --> 00:27:48,049 everyone just leaves and they're like, 1089 00:27:48,049 --> 00:27:49,134 they were like in a shock of like, 1090 00:27:49,134 --> 00:27:50,085 what do we do now? 1091 00:27:50,085 --> 00:27:51,403 So they obviously took the boat 1092 00:27:51,403 --> 00:27:52,887 back, started driving to Miami. 1093 00:27:52,887 --> 00:27:54,489 But that was tough for them. 1094 00:27:54,489 --> 00:27:55,440 I mean, 1095 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,575 those two boys have lived on the water 1096 00:27:57,575 --> 00:27:58,443 growing up on the water, 1097 00:27:58,443 --> 00:28:00,128 just like you did. Yeah. 1098 00:28:00,128 --> 00:28:04,366 And they don't even own a mask anymore. 1099 00:28:05,734 --> 00:28:07,602 So have you been back out? 1100 00:28:07,602 --> 00:28:07,919 No. 1101 00:28:07,919 --> 00:28:08,720 I mean, you know, 1102 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,372 they probably have a time or two 1103 00:28:10,372 --> 00:28:11,373 just to kind of like. 1104 00:28:11,373 --> 00:28:13,575 No, you owe me. 1105 00:28:13,575 --> 00:28:14,125 You have the one. 1106 00:28:14,125 --> 00:28:14,292 Like, 1107 00:28:14,292 --> 00:28:16,244 I bet they made him get into lobster 1108 00:28:16,244 --> 00:28:17,929 just so he can get over that fear. 1109 00:28:17,929 --> 00:28:18,530 That fear. Yeah. 1110 00:28:18,530 --> 00:28:19,013 I mean, I went 1111 00:28:19,013 --> 00:28:20,415 and we both slept on the couch 1112 00:28:20,415 --> 00:28:22,050 that day at the house. 1113 00:28:22,050 --> 00:28:23,151 Of course we 1114 00:28:23,151 --> 00:28:23,568 we did 1115 00:28:23,568 --> 00:28:25,120 many season this past, 1116 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:27,689 you know, this past week 1117 00:28:27,689 --> 00:28:28,723 had to jump in. 1118 00:28:28,723 --> 00:28:29,607 I saw my buddies 1119 00:28:29,607 --> 00:28:31,559 catching the lobster and I was like, 1120 00:28:31,559 --> 00:28:33,328 we're in eight feet of water. 1121 00:28:33,328 --> 00:28:34,646 You know, they're right there. 1122 00:28:34,646 --> 00:28:36,564 Let me just let me get that itch out. 1123 00:28:36,564 --> 00:28:37,699 I mean, these

guys are bringing 1124 00:28:37,699 --> 00:28:38,366 lobster left and right. 1125 00:28:38,366 --> 00:28:39,367 I'm like, 1126 00:28:39,367 --> 00:28:40,535 I can't just sit on the boat 1127 00:28:40,535 --> 00:28:41,853 and play music and measure lobster 1128 00:28:41,853 --> 00:28:42,721 like I need to be in there. 1129 00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:43,204 So, I mean, 1130 00:28:43,204 --> 00:28:44,572 I see it as a sign of his mental 1131 00:28:44,572 --> 00:28:45,840 fortitude, right? 1132 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:46,975 People are afraid of the ocean 1133 00:28:46,975 --> 00:28:48,727 who've never even been in the ocean. 1134 00:28:48,727 --> 00:28:50,128 So the fact that you 1135 00:28:50,128 --> 00:28:52,447 you literally dived back in headfirst 1136 00:28:52,447 --> 00:28:54,482 and went to go, hopefully not at first. 1137 00:28:54,482 --> 00:28:54,733 No. 1138 00:28:54,733 --> 00:28:56,768 Yeah, but you went in to go conquer it, 1139 00:28:56,768 --> 00:28:58,686 to go break the fear. Of course. Exactly. 1140 00:28:58,686 --> 00:29:00,805 That's Simone, but that's the point. 1141 00:29:00,805 --> 00:29:03,808 So the odds to get shark bite 1142 00:29:03,842 --> 00:29:06,010 it really small. Very. 1143 00:29:06,010 --> 00:29:06,444 It's easier 1144 00:29:06,444 --> 00:29:08,363 for you to get drowning than to. 1145 00:29:08,363 --> 00:29:10,048 Oh, I even wrote it down here, doctor 1146 00:29:10,048 --> 00:29:11,683 Martos, I have it's more dangerous 1147 00:29:11,683 --> 00:29:14,919 for boats, planes, trains, cars, the sun, 1148 00:29:15,370 --> 00:29:17,772 the cold, all things more dangerous 1149 00:29:19,524 --> 00:29:20,692 to learn about that and 1150 00:29:20,692 --> 00:29:22,560 then to to go over and. 1151 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,130 And I know he became a celebrity, so. 1152 00:29:25,130 --> 00:29:26,047 Yeah. I mean, come on. 1153 00:29:26,047 --> 00:29:27,615 Because I met somebody 1154 00:29:27,615 --> 00:29:28,683 some months ago, said, oh, 1155 00:29:28,683 --> 00:29:30,335 I was talking to a guy. 1156 00:29:30,335 --> 00:29:31,202 He was 1157 00:29:31,202 --> 00:29:32,720 he was having a shark 1158 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,088 bite, was showing his leg, 1159 00:29:34,088 --> 00:29:35,006 and I was scared 1160 00:29:35,006 --> 00:29:36,691 when he was talking to the guy talking, 1161 00:29:36,691 --> 00:29:37,926 his spirit said that said, 1162 00:29:37,926 --> 00:29:39,527 but that's important, you know. 1163 00:29:39,527 --> 00:29:41,412 So now he can teach people, okay. 1164 00:29:41,412 --> 00:29:42,447 You see, 1165 00:29:42,447 --> 00:29:43,214 the people are going to be 1166 00:29:43,214 --> 00:29:45,450 watching this podcast and say, 1167 00:29:45,450 --> 00:29:47,168 oh, what can I do to have a problem? 1168 00:29:47,168 --> 00:29:48,119 Stop the bleeding. 1169 00:29:48,119 --> 00:29:50,371 Stop the plan. Plan for problems. 1170 00:29:50,371 --> 00:29:52,006 Right. Support.

1171 00:29:52,006 --> 00:29:54,926 Remember when you had a macho newness 1172 00:29:54,926 --> 00:29:55,560 for Columbus? 1173 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:56,211 The same column with 1174 00:29:56,211 --> 00:29:58,530 how did the the brain bleed, right? Yes. 1175 00:29:58,530 --> 00:29:59,764 How the the broader 1176 00:29:59,764 --> 00:30:01,366 who the friends can help in the recovery. 1177 00:30:01,366 --> 00:30:02,967 The same thing happened to you 100%. 1178 00:30:02,967 --> 00:30:04,052 The same school, you know, 1179 00:30:04,052 --> 00:30:05,403 literally the same kind of thing. 1180 00:30:05,403 --> 00:30:06,571 Miami is this small. 1181 00:30:07,522 --> 00:30:08,122 Tell me about it. 1182 00:30:08,122 --> 00:30:08,573 Miami is 1183 00:30:08,573 --> 00:30:09,774 tiny and everyone knows each other 1184 00:30:09,774 --> 00:30:11,326 and everyone you know. 1185 00:30:11,326 --> 00:30:13,044 The support that I had was amazing. 1186 00:30:13,044 --> 00:30:15,647 That definitely helped a lot. 1187 00:30:15,647 --> 00:30:18,650 But it was, you know, 1188 00:30:18,933 --> 00:30:20,134 it almost needed to happen 1189 00:30:20,134 --> 00:30:20,652 because I feel like, 1190 00:30:20,652 --> 00:30:20,935 you know, 1191 00:30:20,935 --> 00:30:21,803 if you don't have the support 1192 00:30:21,803 --> 00:30:22,854 and you're just home and you're, 1193 00:30:22,854 --> 00:30:24,005 like, dwelling on it, 1194 00:30:24,005 --> 00:30:24,255 you know, 1195 00:30:24,255 --> 00:30:24,973 maybe things would have 1196 00:30:24,973 --> 00:30:26,007 turned out differently. 1197 00:30:26,007 --> 00:30:26,975 But having that support 1198 00:30:26,975 --> 00:30:28,760 definitely got that out of my mental. 1199 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:29,010 Yeah. 1200 00:30:29,010 --> 00:30:29,644 And, you know, 1201 00:30:29,644 --> 00:30:31,045 going back out on the boat 1202 00:30:31,045 --> 00:30:33,131 and we went on the boat, 1203 00:30:33,131 --> 00:30:36,134 I believe it was ten days after I got it 1204 00:30:36,251 --> 00:30:37,285 for a family spin 1205 00:30:37,285 --> 00:30:39,204 just to go and like feel the air 1206 00:30:39,204 --> 00:30:40,004 just to get out there, 1207 00:30:40,004 --> 00:30:40,288 you know, 1208 00:30:40,288 --> 00:30:41,322 because like, it's 1209 00:30:41,322 --> 00:30:42,991 so it's important to us like it's 1210 00:30:42,991 --> 00:30:44,759 it's like our thing to do, you know, 1211 00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:46,244 we actually 1212 00:30:46,244 --> 00:30:47,045 just got a new boat 1213 00:30:47,045 --> 00:30:49,280 and the boat's name is Bike Back. 1214 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:49,931 Let's go. 1215 00:30:49,931 --> 00:30:52,000 I love that story. 1216 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,003 First spin go. First 1217 00:30:55,003 --> 00:30:56,371 thing, bike back. 1218 00:30:56,371 --> 00:30:58,840 So that's us kind of you know, 1219 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,208 it's a it's a comeback story. 1220 00:31:00,208 -->

00:31:01,609 You really started 1221 00:31:01,609 --> 00:31:02,810 from the bottom of the ocean 1222 00:31:02,810 --> 00:31:04,562 and now look at you. Good night. Here. 1223 00:31:04,562 --> 00:31:06,965 So I want you to leave us with something. 1224 00:31:06,965 --> 00:31:07,732 Leave our audience 1225 00:31:07,732 --> 00:31:09,050 with what you would tell people 1226 00:31:09,050 --> 00:31:10,368 about your experience. Right. 1227 00:31:10,368 --> 00:31:11,519 There's tons that you've learned. 1228 00:31:11,519 --> 00:31:12,604 You're incredibly mature. 1229 00:31:12,604 --> 00:31:14,255 You have an incredible role model. 1230 00:31:14,255 --> 00:31:14,772 Thank you, thank you. 1231 00:31:14,772 --> 00:31:16,491 What do you tell people? 1232 00:31:16,491 --> 00:31:19,611 My message would be not to plan 1233 00:31:19,611 --> 00:31:20,211 for the worst, 1234 00:31:20,211 --> 00:31:22,080 but to definitely be prepared 1235 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:22,847 for anything. 1236 00:31:22,847 --> 00:31:24,132 You know, if you stay ready, 1237 00:31:24,132 --> 00:31:26,334 you don't have to get ready. Yeah. So, 1238 00:31:27,852 --> 00:31:29,053 you know, just 1239 00:31:29,053 --> 00:31:30,488 again, because I wouldn't want to say, 1240 00:31:30,488 --> 00:31:30,772 you know, 1241 00:31:30,772 --> 00:31:31,773 think about a shark bite 1242 00:31:31,773 --> 00:31:32,290 while you're out there 1243 00:31:32,290 --> 00:31:33,374 having a good time, because, again, 1244 00:31:33,374 --> 00:31:34,726 you said, how rare 1245 00:31:34,726 --> 00:31:35,810 is it for it to happen? 1246 00:31:35,810 --> 00:31:36,127 So, you know, 1247 00:31:36,127 --> 00:31:37,328 you don't want to dwell on that. 1248 00:31:37,328 --> 00:31:38,446 And I think 1249 00:31:38,446 --> 00:31:41,449 the whole of it being rare is, you know, 1250 00:31:41,849 --> 00:31:43,251 the majority of 1251 00:31:43,251 --> 00:31:44,969 what is it like 1 in 2,000,000 people 1252 00:31:44,969 --> 00:31:46,254 get bit by a shark. 1253 00:31:46,254 --> 00:31:48,923 That's that's like that's like the whole 1254 00:31:48,923 --> 00:31:51,175 everyone in the US or world, 1255 00:31:51,175 --> 00:31:51,726 you know, 1256 00:31:51,726 --> 00:31:53,845 going to the beach twice a year. Exactly. 1257 00:31:53,845 --> 00:31:55,363 And going to the in Florida's 1258 00:31:55,363 --> 00:31:57,966 a lot smaller and then 1259 00:31:57,966 --> 00:31:58,967 spearfishing probably 1260 00:31:58,967 --> 00:32:00,535 makes it a lot, lot, a lot more. 1261 00:32:00,535 --> 00:32:01,286 So it's like 1262 00:32:01,286 --> 00:32:02,086 but again, 1263 00:32:02,086 --> 00:32:02,971 it is a rare thing, 1264 00:32:02,971 --> 00:32:03,605 you know, 1265 00:32:03,605 --> 00:32:04,455 there's a lot of things 1266 00:32:04,455 --> 00:32:05,290 that can happen out there. 1267 00:32:05,290 --> 00:32:06,975 So I would definitely say 1268 00:32:06,975 --> 00:32:07,492 stay ready 1269 00:32:07,492 --> 00:32:08,643 so you don't have to get ready. 1270 00:32:08,643 --> 00:32:09,711 That's awesome. 1271 00:32:09,711 --> 00:32:10,295 That's a good one. 1272 00:32:10,295 --> 00:32:11,613 I'm a surprise. 1273 00:32:11,613 --> 00:32:12,931 I would have said listen to your dad. 1274 00:32:12,931 --> 00:32:14,048 That works out too. 1275 00:32:14,048 --> 00:32:15,333 He did, I did, 1276 00:32:15,333 --> 00:32:16,334 I did, I did, I already did 1277 00:32:16,334 --> 00:32:17,902 I mean I was surprised, I was surprised. 1278 00:32:17,902 --> 00:32:18,853 Oh he does listen. 1279 00:32:18,853 --> 00:32:22,023 But no I would say I would if it's okay. 1280 00:32:22,056 --> 00:32:22,724 I'd like to follow up 1281 00:32:22,724 --> 00:32:24,325 with on what he said is, 1282 00:32:24,325 --> 00:32:27,095 you know, number one, I think, you know 1283 00:32:27,095 --> 00:32:28,763 and Doctor Marcos made it. 1284 00:32:28,763 --> 00:32:30,014 Said it a little bit ago. 1285 00:32:30,014 --> 00:32:30,682 You never know. 1286 00:32:30,682 --> 00:32:31,799 You never know what the situation 1287 00:32:31,799 --> 00:32:32,367 is going to bring, 1288 00:32:32,367 --> 00:32:33,685 but you want to be as prepared 1289 00:32:33,685 --> 00:32:34,686 as possible. 1290 00:32:34,686 --> 00:32:35,520 The two factors 1291 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:36,721 that I like to share with people 1292 00:32:36,721 --> 00:32:38,439 is the one thing I taught him 1293 00:32:38,439 --> 00:32:39,240 in my years 1294 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:40,808 of running over 20 years running 1295 00:32:40,808 --> 00:32:41,726 nine one calls, 1296 00:32:41,726 --> 00:32:43,361 I'd always bring that experience back 1297 00:32:43,361 --> 00:32:44,362 and share it with people like, 1298 00:32:44,362 --> 00:32:45,930 hey man, learn CPR. 1299 00:32:45,930 --> 00:32:47,682 Like, you know, a 1300 00:32:47,682 --> 00:32:48,883 choking or somebody choking. 1301 00:32:48,883 --> 00:32:49,651 You know, 1302 00:32:49,651 --> 00:32:50,935 funny enough, 1303 00:32:50,935 --> 00:32:51,169 you know, 1304 00:32:51,169 --> 00:32:52,253 they have this suction thing 1305 00:32:52,253 --> 00:32:54,022 that you use now to pull 1306 00:32:54,022 --> 00:32:54,656 if you're choking. 1307 00:32:54,656 --> 00:32:55,690 Yeah, you should get it. 1308 00:32:55,690 --> 00:32:57,492 I know there's a vendor, 1309 00:32:57,492 --> 00:32:58,843 so I don't want to say any of them, 1310 00:32:58,843 --> 00:33:00,445 but these are things that happen 1311 00:33:00,445 --> 00:33:01,963 every single day, right? 1312 00:33:01,963 --> 00:33:04,332 And so, you know, be prepared. 1313 00:33:04,332 --> 00:33:06,050 Learn a bleed protocol, 1314 00:33:06,050 --> 00:33:07,001 how to stop a bleed. 1315 00:33:07,001 --> 00:33:08,803 There's a lot of things that tourniquet 1316 00:33:08,803 --> 00:33:09,570 is an easy thing 1317 00:33:09,570 --> 00:33:11,055 to use back in the day, doc, 1318

00:33:11,055 --> 00:33:11,723 you remember 1319 00:33:11,723 --> 00:33:13,691 you can only put it up to so long 1320 00:33:13,691 --> 00:33:14,609 and you had to, 1321 00:33:14,609 --> 00:33:15,093 you know, 1322 00:33:15,093 --> 00:33:16,327 only in certain places 1323 00:33:16,327 --> 00:33:17,679 nowadays are just high and tight. 1324 00:33:17,679 --> 00:33:19,364 Just put it high and tight. Tight it up. 1325 00:33:19,364 --> 00:33:20,448 As long as it stops bleeding, 1326 00:33:20,448 --> 00:33:21,449 that's what you're going after. 1327 00:33:21,449 --> 00:33:22,934 But if you put it on, 1328 00:33:22,934 --> 00:33:24,402 there used to be a two hour time frame. 1329 00:33:24,402 --> 00:33:25,053 You couldn't use it. 1330 00:33:25,053 --> 00:33:26,654 But as time has shown 1331 00:33:26,654 --> 00:33:27,922 us, you can have it on for 12 hours 1332 00:33:27,922 --> 00:33:28,322 in it. 1333 00:33:28,322 --> 00:33:30,291 There's no tissue damage 1334 00:33:30,291 --> 00:33:31,609 and he can expand on that. 1335 00:33:31,609 --> 00:33:32,610 The other thing is 1336 00:33:32,610 --> 00:33:35,613 get the 911 system activated right away. 1337 00:33:35,646 --> 00:33:38,132 I tell you in that story, 1338 00:33:38,132 --> 00:33:39,484 we probably didn't mention it. 1339 00:33:39,484 --> 00:33:40,768 But, you know, 1340 00:33:40,768 --> 00:33:43,087 he knows because of other situations. 1341 00:33:43,087 --> 00:33:44,205 And as he was growing up 1342 00:33:44,205 --> 00:33:45,039 that he was calling me 1343 00:33:45,039 --> 00:33:45,840 and I go, did you call him? 1344 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:46,124 I won. 1345 00:33:46,124 --> 00:33:46,491 He goes, no, 1346 00:33:46,491 --> 00:33:48,292 I go call nine one, then call me back. 1347 00:33:48,292 --> 00:33:49,644 And so that's important. 1348 00:33:49,644 --> 00:33:51,245 And when the boys got on the boat 1349 00:33:51,245 --> 00:33:51,963 and they said, hey, 1350 00:33:51,963 --> 00:33:53,564 what do we give me your dad's number? 1351 00:33:53,564 --> 00:33:54,532 He said, call nine one 1352 00:33:54,532 --> 00:33:55,883 and then call my dad. 1353 00:33:55,883 --> 00:33:57,769 I think ultimately all these things 1354 00:33:57,769 --> 00:33:58,770 that lined up that day 1355 00:33:58,770 --> 00:33:59,654 helped save his life. 1356 00:33:59,654 --> 00:34:00,772 And, you know, 1357 00:34:00,772 --> 00:34:03,841 I got to give out a shout out to Danny. 1358 00:34:04,375 --> 00:34:07,361 Danny Maduro and Chris Downs. 1359 00:34:07,562 --> 00:34:08,096 I didn't forget 1360 00:34:08,096 --> 00:34:09,447 their names are just 1361 00:34:09,447 --> 00:34:10,848 in the moment on the spot. 1362 00:34:10,848 --> 00:34:11,999 But these guys are. 1363 00:34:11,999 --> 00:34:15,086 They absolutely could have seen the shark 1364 00:34:15,086 --> 00:34:16,487 and gone up to the surface 1365 00:34:16,487 --> 00:34:18,322 and they didn't. Yeah. 1366 00:34:18,322 --> 00:34:20,374

So it could have played out a lot. 1367 00:34:20,374 --> 00:34:21,576 There was a lot of factors 1368 00:34:21,576 --> 00:34:24,562 that, you know, come into it to where 1369 00:34:25,613 --> 00:34:26,080 you could have 1370 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,049 written the story a hundred times and it 1371 00:34:28,049 --> 00:34:28,683 yeah, it just 1372 00:34:28,683 --> 00:34:29,967 it went everything went perfect. 1373 00:34:29,967 --> 00:34:30,168 Yeah. 1374 00:34:30,168 --> 00:34:31,402 It's what do they call it 1375 00:34:31,402 --> 00:34:32,203 the perfect storm 1376 00:34:32,203 --> 00:34:33,805 of everything that's and 1377 00:34:33,805 --> 00:34:35,173 and you wrap up and go to the main guy 1378 00:34:35,173 --> 00:34:35,690 here, doctor 1379 00:34:35,690 --> 00:34:37,842 Martos, the Jackson system, 1380 00:34:37,842 --> 00:34:38,926 you know Jackson. 1381 00:34:38,926 --> 00:34:40,962 Jackson saw Doctor Martel was there. 1382 00:34:40,962 --> 00:34:42,530 I mean, that entire team 1383 00:34:42,530 --> 00:34:43,765 from the security guards 1384 00:34:43,765 --> 00:34:46,768 there to the nurses to the doctors. 1385 00:34:46,851 --> 00:34:47,769 Phenomenal job. 1386 00:34:47,769 --> 00:34:50,288 I mean, I kudos and they deserve it. 1387 00:34:50,288 --> 00:34:51,606 And I often say it. 1388 00:34:51,606 --> 00:34:53,040 And the partnership between you 1389 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:54,008 and you health and 1390 00:34:54,008 --> 00:34:55,359 and Jackson it's amazing. 1391 00:34:55,359 --> 00:34:56,928 And so Doctor Martos 1392 00:34:56,928 --> 00:34:58,679 thank you very much man. 1393 00:34:58,679 --> 00:35:00,014 Yeah. Close us out. 1394 00:35:00,014 --> 00:35:01,165 I would say that 1395 00:35:01,165 --> 00:35:02,850 we have a couple lessons here, right. 1396 00:35:02,850 --> 00:35:05,403 First 1397 00:35:05,403 --> 00:35:06,804 for a kid, right, 1398 00:35:06,804 --> 00:35:09,090 that grew up seeing your your father 1399 00:35:09,090 --> 00:35:09,841 working hard 1400 00:35:09,841 --> 00:35:11,843 sometimes not being home in home late 1401 00:35:11,843 --> 00:35:13,845 because he was working with 1402 00:35:13,845 --> 00:35:15,129 the important job. 1403 00:35:15,129 --> 00:35:17,131 And then you you witness yourself. 1404 00:35:17,131 --> 00:35:19,650 How important is his work 1405 00:35:19,650 --> 00:35:21,335 and the legacy that he leaves for? 1406 00:35:21,335 --> 00:35:22,053 For it 1407 00:35:22,053 --> 00:35:22,804 not only for you, 1408 00:35:22,804 --> 00:35:25,089 for every seats in Miami-Dade. Right. 1409 00:35:25,089 --> 00:35:26,240 So that's important. 1410 00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:28,442 And the first person that you call 1411 00:35:28,442 --> 00:35:30,161 when they are in trouble was your dad 1412 00:35:31,646 --> 00:35:33,364 from the fire department so far? 1413 00:35:33,364 --> 00:35:35,283 Department police drama. 1414 00:35:35,283 --> 00:35:36,601 You have a lot of respect to each other. 1415 00:35:36,601 --> 00:35:37,451 You know where you are 1416 00:35:37,451 --> 00:35:38,202 there for each other. 1417 00:35:38,202 --> 00:35:41,172 You know, we went, like I said, when 1418 00:35:41,172 --> 00:35:42,206 somebody from the police, 1419 00:35:42,206 --> 00:35:43,291 from fire departments down 1420 00:35:43,291 --> 00:35:44,375 we go above and beyond. 1421 00:35:44,375 --> 00:35:45,159 Yeah, 1422 00:35:45,159 --> 00:35:46,360 but I would say 1423 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,046 it's just a pleasure to see 1424 00:35:49,046 --> 00:35:50,014 our season working. 1425 00:35:50,014 --> 00:35:52,300 I would say to every single season here. 1426 00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:54,168 I mean, they trust your system. 1427 00:35:54,168 --> 00:35:56,721 You have the best system. Amazing. 1428 00:35:56,721 --> 00:35:58,322 From the pre-hospital, from the EMS, 1429 00:35:58,322 --> 00:35:59,207 from the 1430 00:35:59,207 --> 00:36:02,210 helicopter and in the trauma bay. 1431 00:36:02,293 --> 00:36:03,728 Sometimes I have the same time. 1432 00:36:03,728 --> 00:36:05,813 If the lady, they clean the blood, 1433 00:36:05,813 --> 00:36:07,315 taking the blood out, 1434 00:36:07,315 --> 00:36:09,483 she is there to make things work. 1435 00:36:09,483 --> 00:36:10,368 His security, 1436 00:36:10,368 --> 00:36:12,803 his blood bank is cleaning facilities. 1437 00:36:12,803 --> 00:36:13,371 The nurses, 1438 00:36:13,371 --> 00:36:15,640 the the the therapy is the physician. 1439 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,124 Everybody work as a team. 1440 00:36:17,124 --> 00:36:19,126 And this only works because of that. 1441 00:36:19,126 --> 00:36:21,729 And and for so Omar, 1442 00:36:21,729 --> 00:36:23,247 I saw his legacy 1443 00:36:23,247 --> 00:36:25,650 as one of the leaders of Miami-Dade. 1444 00:36:25,650 --> 00:36:27,335 Wow. Thank you. 1445 00:36:27,335 --> 00:36:30,004 And I saw he as a dad. 1446 00:36:30,004 --> 00:36:32,523 Mark you to see you calling me 1447 00:36:32,523 --> 00:36:34,609 from Europe one to show me 1448 00:36:34,609 --> 00:36:36,410 he fully recovered running. Yeah. 1449 00:36:36,410 --> 00:36:37,245 Wasn't the best thing 1450 00:36:37,245 --> 00:36:37,895 as a physician 1451 00:36:37,895 --> 00:36:40,414 because to see a dad 1452 00:36:40,414 --> 00:36:42,567 happy and a patient recovery is the best. 1453 00:36:42,567 --> 00:36:43,801 And it really you're here 1454 00:36:43,801 --> 00:36:46,520 for every single dead man of my day. The. 1455 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,256 Just a pleasure to serve. Thank you. 1456 00:36:48,256 --> 00:36:48,923 Thank you. 1457 00:36:48,923 --> 00:36:49,540 Incredible. 1458 00:36:49,540 --> 00:36:51,442 It's it's wonderful to have you all here 1459 00:36:51,442 --> 00:36:53,044 to talk about your story. 1460 00:36:53,044 --> 00:36:55,413 Close out Shark week on a positive note. 1461 00:36:55,413 --> 00:36:56,214 Right. Positive. 1462 00:36:56,214 -->

00:36:57,565 You know, there's obviously 1463 00:36:57,565 --> 00:36:58,216 one more thing 1464 00:36:58,216 --> 00:36:59,083 I did want to mention, 1465 00:36:59,083 --> 00:36:59,650 just in case 1466 00:36:59,650 --> 00:37:01,052 the right viewer 1467 00:37:01,052 --> 00:37:03,004 gets to see this as speak, 1468 00:37:03,004 --> 00:37:04,255 I think that there's, 1469 00:37:04,255 --> 00:37:04,455 you know, 1470 00:37:04,455 --> 00:37:06,007 I'm not the person that would be like, 1471 00:37:06,007 --> 00:37:06,240 you know, 1472 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:06,974 against sharks 1473 00:37:06,974 --> 00:37:07,575 because obviously 1474 00:37:07,575 --> 00:37:08,609 we're in their territory 1475 00:37:08,609 --> 00:37:09,961 and all this stuff. 1476 00:37:09,961 --> 00:37:12,013 But there's definitely a shark problem. 1477 00:37:12,013 --> 00:37:13,614 There's a lot of sharks. 1478 00:37:13,614 --> 00:37:15,249 There is a 1479 00:37:15,249 --> 00:37:17,735 there's been a ban of killing sharks 1480 00:37:17,735 --> 00:37:18,769 and all this stuff. 1481 00:37:18,769 --> 00:37:18,970 You know, 1482 00:37:18,970 --> 00:37:21,255 a lot of the people that are against it, 1483 00:37:21,255 --> 00:37:21,522 you know, 1484 00:37:21,522 --> 00:37:23,441 don't ever really go into the water 1485 00:37:23,441 --> 00:37:23,808 and stuff, 1486 00:37:23,808 --> 00:37:25,159 you know, have a lot of time 1487 00:37:25,159 --> 00:37:26,360 and experience on the water. 1488 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,729 Yeah, that 1489 00:37:28,729 --> 00:37:30,531 not that that's the reason why I got bit. 1490 00:37:30,531 --> 00:37:31,849 But there is 1491 00:37:31,849 --> 00:37:32,400 that's the reason 1492 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:33,484 why I'm not going back in 1493 00:37:33,484 --> 00:37:35,486 is because the population control. 1494 00:37:35,486 --> 00:37:36,804 That was one of the fun facts 1495 00:37:36,804 --> 00:37:37,805 I pulled to that. 1496 00:37:37,805 --> 00:37:38,205 Florida 1497 00:37:38,205 --> 00:37:40,324 has one of the highest concentrations 1498 00:37:40,324 --> 00:37:43,361 of all the three big spiders there. 1499 00:37:43,361 --> 00:37:44,328 Something needs to be looked at. 1500 00:37:44,328 --> 00:37:45,763 I think, 1501 00:37:45,763 --> 00:37:47,164 again, that is probably the reason 1502 00:37:47,164 --> 00:37:48,566 why I haven't gone back in just 1503 00:37:48,566 --> 00:37:49,850 it was a freak accident, 1504 00:37:49,850 --> 00:37:51,535 but now it's become 1505 00:37:51,535 --> 00:37:54,322 so much more prevalent, common, common 1506 00:37:54,322 --> 00:37:55,289 for it to come up. 1507 00:37:55,289 --> 00:37:56,173 And you know, another 1508 00:37:56,173 --> 00:37:57,041 and I see it on the news 1509 00:37:57,041 --> 00:37:58,376 like another person. 1510 00:37:58,376 --> 00:37:59,894 And I know what they're going through, 1511 00:37:59,894 --> 00:38:00,761 you know, and like 1512 00:38:00,761 --> 00:38:02,046 and I know that, you know, 1513 00:38:02,046 --> 00:38:02,480 I feel like 1514 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:03,814 I was a lot more blessed 1515 00:38:03,814 --> 00:38:05,967 than the people that lost a limb, 1516 00:38:05,967 --> 00:38:06,200 you know, 1517 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:07,885 did it make it or all that stuff. 1518 00:38:07,885 --> 00:38:08,886 So I just, you know, 1519 00:38:08,886 --> 00:38:09,804 I think that there needs 1520 00:38:09,804 --> 00:38:11,806 to be something done with the sharks. 1521 00:38:11,806 --> 00:38:14,008 I don't necessarily say that like 1522 00:38:14,008 --> 00:38:15,176 like I hate sharks. 1523 00:38:15,176 --> 00:38:16,294 You know, obviously, again, 1524 00:38:16,294 --> 00:38:17,328 we're in their tour. 1525 00:38:17,328 --> 00:38:18,045 We're in their home 1526 00:38:18,045 --> 00:38:20,164 taking their food, doing all he doesn't 1527 00:38:20,164 --> 00:38:20,998 and he doesn't like, 1528 00:38:20,998 --> 00:38:21,565 you know, 1529 00:38:21,565 --> 00:38:22,233 one of the best things 1530 00:38:22,233 --> 00:38:23,117 he said when he goes, 1531 00:38:23,117 --> 00:38:23,951 I don't blame the shark. 1532 00:38:23,951 --> 00:38:25,436 Like, no, I don't like I'm in there. 1533 00:38:25,436 --> 00:38:27,605 So he's not he's not anti shark. 1534 00:38:27,605 --> 00:38:28,439 And he believes that, 1535 00:38:28,439 --> 00:38:28,923 you know, 1536 00:38:28,923 --> 00:38:29,607 that that 1537 00:38:29,607 --> 00:38:31,442 there's a purpose for everything. 1538 00:38:31,442 --> 00:38:32,243 But but yeah you know 1539 00:38:32,243 --> 00:38:33,127 there's a concern there 1540 00:38:33,127 --> 00:38:34,395 that the waters are getting more 1541 00:38:34,395 --> 00:38:35,112 and more dangerous 1542 00:38:35,112 --> 00:38:36,314 and people are seeing more 1543 00:38:36,314 --> 00:38:37,365 and more shark activity. 1544 00:38:37,365 --> 00:38:39,400 So I think you'll see that 1545 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,285 we'll look to see what we can do to help, 1546 00:38:41,285 --> 00:38:42,236 but we'll call you 1547 00:38:42,236 --> 00:38:44,238 make people safer out there. Right. 1548 00:38:44,238 --> 00:38:45,723 We'll call you for help. 1549 00:38:45,723 --> 00:38:46,640 All right, fellas, 1550 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:47,875 thank you so much for your time 1551 00:38:47,875 --> 00:38:49,276 and your expertise today. 1552 00:38:49,276 --> 00:38:51,996 This story is truly, truly one of a kind. 1553 00:38:51,996 --> 00:38:53,197 Yeah. Awesome. 1554 00:38:53,197 --> 00:38:53,631 Thank you. 1555 00:38:53,631 --> 00:38:55,032 So Shark Week may be over, 1556 00:38:55,032 --> 00:38:56,517 but these are still good lessons 1557 00:38:56,517 --> 00:38:57,752 to swim with next time 1558 00:38:57,752 --> 00:38:58,686 you're in the ocean. 1559 00:38:58,686 --> 00:38:59,837 Thank you for listening along, 1560 00:38:59,837 --> 00:39:00,438 and don't forget 1561 00:39:00,438 --> 00:39:01,722 to like and subscribe on your 1562 00:39:01,722 --> 00:39:03,641 favorite podcast platform.