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By Michelle McGahan
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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy had a scary mishap in the sea while attempting to take his mom on a boat ride in Nantucket.
Recalling the misadventure to his followers on Monday, July 15, "Captain Dave" — as the shirtless Portnoy refers to himself throughout the two-minute video — let fans know that they "almost lost" him in the incident.
"Captain Dave was almost lost to the ocean. Mother ocean," Portnoy, clad in a captain's hat, explained on the beach as the wind whipped around him.
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He started out the story by explaining that he went out to the boat at his mom's request, only to find out that the engine was dead. Noting that it was only his "third time out" as captain, Portnoy admittedly "made a mistake" when unhooking himself from the buoy to check out the boat's power situation.
"No power, no radio, no anchor, no nothing. Heavy, heavy winds. Next thing you know, Captain Dave is lost at sea," he revealed. "Just blowing. Trying not to crash into any ships in the harbor. Just heading out to the channel. … And Captain Dave doesn't know what he's gonna do."
Despite not being "any type of firework guy," Portnoy utilizes the "flare gun thing … [and] shoots his f***ng [flare] gun into the sky as a distress single."
As Portnoy is shouting, "'Help! Captain Dave needs help!'" he recalled, laughing, a woman in "what looked like a rowboat" came by to save him — though she initially asked to film the whole thing for TikTok.
"'There's no time for TikTok,'" Portnoy responded, which was just as good considering the woman didn't have a phone on her, anyway.
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Fortunately, the woman contacts the Coast Guard on her radio. When the Coast Guard arrives — "four burly dudes," Portnoy described — the social media personality thought he had been "halfway to the f***ing Caribbean" by how far he had floated out to see.
"Thankfully, Coast Guard, God bless their soul, tied me up, [brought] me back … Captain Dave lives to tell another tale."
"The sea's angry, my friends," Portnoy told his followers. "Captain Dave may never go on the boat again."
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