Boaters save lost dog struggling in the ocean and reunite him with his family

Thankfully, the dog is now safe after they came to the rescue and brought him back to shore.

A group of friends were out on the water near Fort Lauderdale, Florida when they noticed a tiny white dog struggling in the sea.

“I saw something in the water and at first I was thinking, like, ‘that kinda looks like a dog,’” Bryn Crowell, one of the guests on the boat, told WSVN. “A second later I realized it was, in fact, a dog.”

They knew they had to help the poor dog. Another boater named Dylan Berian jumped in to the water and helped get the dog in the boat.

The rescue was captured on camera by Bryn, who shared it in a now-viral TikTok video with nearly 12 million views:

“You could tell he just had the swim of his life,” Bryn told The Dodo.

The dog was scared and wet but otherwise unharmed. He still had all his collars on, indicating that he had likely fallen off a boat by accident.

“The dog warmed up to us instantly,” Dylan told WSVN. “As soon as it got in the boat it was shaking, but after about five minutes the dog calmed down and seemed quite happy to be on a stable boat rather than getting drowned by waves.”