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On Thanksgiving morning, 1999, a Florida man from outside Fort Lauderdale named Donato Del Rimple went on an impulse fishing trip with his cousin.

The water was choppy as they took their motorboat out into the Atlantic Ocean in search of Mahimahi.

My cousin, he said, look for seaweed and debris, anything floating on the ocean.

And I point out with my finger, and I said, like that inner tube that's there?

He goes, yeah, let's go around that inner tube.

Dalrymple was 39 years old, and he wasn't much of a fisherman.

He owned a house cleaning business, which he still does.

Out on the water, he followed his cousin's

lead as they scouted for a good place to throw out their lines. Then, Del Rimple saw something.

We were about 25 yards from the inner tube, never that close to it. And I told my cousin, I said,

it looks like there's somebody on there, but they look like they're dead.

When Delrimple got closer,

he noticed a tiny hand moving in the inner tube.

His cousin jumped into the water to investigate.

My cousin's in the water, and he's screaming, it's a baby.

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