M. Ross Klun

M. Ross Klun helped to save a man from drowning, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 30, 2016. The 32-year-old man floated motionless in a deep, murky inlet of the Charles River near a stone bulkhead adjacent to a highway. Alerted by bystanders, a motorist, Klun, 45, off-duty sheriff’s lieutenant, left his car and went to the highway’s sidewalk. Seeing the man floating face-down in the river, Klun climbed over a railing to a ledge, about 15 feet above the surface of the water. Klun removed his jacket and boots, and jumped into the 53-degree water from which there was no easy egress. Klun grasped the man and turned him over, elevating his face above the water’s surface. Klun revived him, then grasped him from behind and towed him about 5 feet to the bulkhead, to which he held while supporting him. A woman also jumped into the water and helped to support the man. Police responded shortly in a boat and brought the man, the woman, and Klun aboard. The man was hospitalized. Klun was cold but not injured.