A N.S. man jumped into raging waters to save a woman’s life. He’s being hailed as a hero
A hiking trip for a group of friends in New Brunswick’s Fundy National Park this past weekend turned into a dramatic rescue, and resulted in an off-duty police officer being hailed as a hero.
Bruce Lake, his wife Bernadette, and friends were camping and exploring the Laverty Falls and Moosehorn Trail area Saturday when they came across a group of swimmers.
It appeared one of the swimmers was in trouble, while holding onto a rock.
“She was kind of stuck between these two little waterfalls,” Lake recalled.
Initially, the group said they were fine, but Lake’s friend Sean Creary noticed the young woman in the water was showing signs of exhaustion.
“I did watch her at one point make an attempt to get back to shore again to her friend, and she basically let go of the rock that she was holding onto and got sucked underneath,” said Lake.
“She immediately went underneath and then come back up again right near the rock and then grabbed the rock and held on. So she was obviously a little scared.”
Lake said he then realized the “gravity of the situation” but wasn’t sure how they could help because they couldn’t quite reach her.
His friend, Dave Brosha, describes how they watched the swimmer disappear in the water a second time.
“It was like a scene out of a bad movie. She went underneath the water and we expected her head to pop up any second and to emerge over towards where we were,” said Brosha.
“But she didn’t. She just disappeared.”
Brosha said they all waited an agonizing five seconds or so, but the swimmer never reemerged.
“And then all of a sudden, out of the corner of my eye, I see somebody jump in after her. And it’s my friend Bruce Lake,” he said.
Lake is a 25-year member of the Truro Police Force in Nova Scotia, where
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