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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Driver hailed for saving tourists from rip current at Louisiana beach: ‘I just locked in’

a man gives a thumbs up in front of a vehicle
Jordan Matthew. Photograph: Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

A shuttle driver recently used his bare hands to rescue three tourists ensnared by a potentially deadly rip current off the southern Louisiana coast, actions which state officials hailed as “heroic”.

In an interview published on 15 June, Reliant Shuttle driver Jordan Matthew told Guardian reporting partner WWL Louisiana that he had just dropped off a group of tourists from Oklahoma at a beach on Grand Isle days earlier when one of them frantically flagged him down.

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