AMOB to the rescue.
It was an action-packed Friday at the Historic Bridge Street Pier in Bradenton Beach.
Lynn Horne, managing partner of the Anna Maria Oyster Bar on the pier, told The Islander March 7 that restaurant employees responded March 3 to a call for help from the wife of an 80-year-old man who dove off the pier in pursuit of a fallen pair of glasses.
Horne said the woman called the host stand for help after realizing her husband could not gain access to a safety ladder at the end of the pier. She feared he could drown before help arrived.
AMOB employees Ruthie Tuttle and Fredrick Brown ran to the end of the pier, where Tuttle jumped into the water and helped the man reach the ladder, while Brown helped him to the deck.
Tuttle told The Islander that after being rescued, the unidentified man thanked the AMOB staff and left with his wife, declining aid from emergency services.
— Robert Anderson