Ex Football player falls overboard - Swims 9 miles back to shore

[[MPGH]Wyo]

https://gma.yahoo.com/ex-miami-dolph...opstories.html

A former Miami Dolphins player fell from his boat off the coast of Florida and somehow managed to swim nine miles to shore to safety, the Coast Guard said Thursday.

Rob Konrad, who played for the Dolphins from 1999 to 2004, was fishing offshore when he fell from his boat Wednesday night off coast of Florida near Palm Beach, Petty Officer Mark Barney of US Coast Guard told ABC News. The boat was on autopilot and drifted away from him.

When his friends noticed Konrad was overdue, they alerted authorities. The Coast Guard and Palm Beach Co. Sheriff’s Office searched for him for an hour. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office located him on the beach around 4:40 a.m. in Palm Beach.

He was able to swim approximately nine miles to shore and was in the water for 10 to 12 hours, Barney said.

Konrad was showing signs of hypothermia and was taken to an area hospital.

Old man is a tough bastard

[Democritus]

Damn son, that's some fucking endurance.

[KillTheNoise]

I can feel the burn by just reading this I've swam a half a mile before and I found that hard as fuck

[Paralyze]

He was a dolphin for a reason

[Confluency]

That's actually amazing. Swimming an olympic sized swimming pool a few times is killer, imagine nine miles.

[SMILLY]

That's what my miami dolphins teach you weak nfl teams, How to be a real man

That takes some crazy strength, I was in the area when they reported it

[meap01]

what a man, he has some hard balls