The rescuer used his kayak to push the ice floe to shore.
“I mean it was wet, bedraggled, and when I got there, it didn’t move at all,” he said. “From the time I saw it to the time they got it in the net, I didn’t even see it blink its eyes.”
Tibensky, a longtime kayak racer, used a technique he learned from whitewater rafting to push the ice along with the eagle to shore. “I got my bow up on the ice a little bit and then just very slowly, hoping not to dislodge the bird, paddled,” he said. “It was on the opposite side of the harbor from where the people were, so I had to paddle it all the way across.”“They went and got some nets with very large handles and managed to scoop the bird up,” Tibensky said.“He’s eating, sitting up, looking 100% better than yesterday,” Tibensky said.Copyright 2023 WLS via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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