It was a warm but breezy afternoon. Belinda and Robert Stone were enjoying a peaceful afternoon. They decided to go for an ocean 1 .
But the couple didn't realize how 2 the current was until they noticed they were floating in the direction of the neighboring 3 , so Belinda decided to swim toward the beach they came from, 4 the current. "I just couldn't get anywhere," said Belinda, 64,who began to scream out for a(n)5 .
Two teenage girls — Emma Bassermann, 14, and Zoe Ireland-Meklensek, 13 — were boogie-boarding near the shore. Zoe heard Belinda's cries for help and 6 her. The two girls swam toward her.
They quickly reached Belinda, and brought her to 7 . Belinda, grateful but still8 , again repeated that her husband was 9 farther out in the ocean. Then immediately the two girls swam off to get Robert. "When we reached him, he was shocked, and he was really 10 ,"said Zoe, who reassured him that his wife was okay and he was going to be okay.
While they pulled him to shore, the current kept pulling them 11 , but they kept going and going. "Both of us together 12 a really good team," said Emma. 13 washed over Belinda as the girls and Robert reached the shore.
"What really sticks in my mind is the 14 of those children," said Belinda. "They really were a couple of 15 on that beach."
