Video shows HERO paraglider saving woman clinging to sunken car as alligator circles in Florida canal
MIAMI, FLORIDA: A dramatic video with over 30K views shows how a paraglider, Cristiano Piquet, came to rescue a woman after her car ended up in a Southwest Miami-Dade canal with an alligator nearby. The incident took place on Sunday morning, October 30, located near the 20400 block of Southwest 192nd Street.
As stated by Miami Herald, Piquet, a real estate broker in the Miami area, had been recording his flight when an alligator splashing in the water caught his attention. He told the outlet, "I turned around to get a shot of the alligator, and I saw a car under the water. I flew closer to the car and I saw a woman on top." The paraglider's GoPro camera shows Piquet landing in a nearby field and running over to the woman as he shouts, “You need help?” In the video he uploaded on Instagram the next day after the incident, which now has over 2K likes, the woman can be heard shouting, "Oh my God! I fell with my car in here. Help."
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