Jameson Lobb helped save a man from drowning, New York, New York, October 4, 2021. As a middle-aged man floated motionless in the East River between two piers at a popular waterfront overlook, a bystander on the pier nearest the man called for help. Alerted on the opposite pier was Lobb, 24, banking analyst, who was exercising with his friend. Lobb climbed over a railing and, fully clothed, jumped into the cold river and swam toward the submerging man’s location. Lobb submerged, grasped him, and resurfaced as the friend swam to them and positioned the man, who appeared to be unconscious, face up on the friend’s chest. Lobb held the man’s legs, and they swam, towing the man at least 100 feet back to the wooden, barnacle-covered fender of the far pier, where they had entered the water. While the friend held the man to the fender about 8 feet below the pier’s deck, Lobb climbed onto a beam, and they used a rope and life ring lowered by others to secure the man as he became responsive. With help from Lobb and the friend, bystanders then lifted the man onto the pier. Arriving first-responders tended to the man, who was taken to a hospital. Lobb, who suffered cuts on his arms, climbed back onto the pier and went to a hospital for precautionary treatment.
