A deer that somehow found itself drifting out to sea had a lucky escape as it was picked up by a crew of lobstermen five miles from land.
Ren Dorr was setting traps with his crew off the coast of Maine when he spotted the unusual sight on Monday.
“Found this little guy 5 miles offshore today drifting farther away from land,” Mr Dorr said in a Facebook post. “Couldn’t let the poor guy suffer and drown so we brought him aboard and sailed him half hour to land and dropped him off on the beach!”
“He laid right down like a dog. He was beat out, shaking, shivering. I’m sure he was froze,” Mr Dorr told the Bangor Daily News.
The crew then sailed around an hour and a half to the nearest town, Harrington.
“He was gonna die, 100%,” Mr Dorr said. “There’s no ifs, ands or buts — he was a goner. I couldn’t have that on my conscience, obviously. That’s not the guy that I am, so I figured I’d bring him in.”
