BUNNELL, Fla. — While vacationing in Puerto Rico, Mark Dyberg, a volunteer at the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office with Seniors vs. Crime, heroically saved a woman from drowning.
On March 18, Dyberg was vacationing with his wife in the Condado Beach area of San Juan, Puerto Rico. That evening, while reading at the hotel pool, he heard cries for help coming from a jetty in the ocean and learned that three people were in distress in the water: two women and one man who had jumped in to attempt to rescue them. Dyberg alerted a hotel employee to call authorities, then grabbed water rescue equipment from the pool and went to render aid.
Before Dyberg arrived at the jetty, one of the women had already been pulled to shore. One of the individuals still in the water, the man, was no longer calling out for help, while the other woman could barely be heard. Dyberg headed into the water with two lifebuoys in the direction of the voice he could still hear. He swam 150 yards through swells of up to 6 feet and, despite the darkness, located the woman. He then brought her near the shore until they were close enough to be pulled from the water by authorities with the Puerto Rico Emergency Management Bureau.
