"Operator and the victim got in the vessel at the Shellman Fish Camp dock and floated the vessel over to a sandbar across the river. As they got close, the victim jumped out head first and hit bottom. Witnesses yelled at operator, who was at the stern of the boat, to get his attention.  He got out of the boat into the water and placed a life jacket on victim. wife of the operator/owner, had already swam to the sandbar prior to boat being launched. When she heard people yelling, she ran down the sandbar to assist them . Together, she and her husband, put another PFD on him and floated him back across the river to Hunter's dock. EMS personnel arrived and transported the victim to the golf course so he could be airlifted to Memorial Hospital in Savannah for treatment. The victim was unable to feel or move anything below his chest at the time of the flight.


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