This is the touching scene of an elderly fisherman reuniting with his senior Jack Russell. After his boat capsized, the man amazingly survived, but his pet dog became stuck inside, and he thought he’d lost him forever. However, volunteers were able to free the dog and return him to his owner. The emotional reunion was captured on film!
Alfonse Attard, 75, is an experienced fisherman from Altona, Australia, a suburb of Melbourne. The guy and his best buddy, a 17-year-old dog named Jack, are inseparable, so Attard takes his faithful companion with him even when he goes out to sea to fish. This time was no different!
When they ran into difficulties, the two were on a fishing excursion approximately half a mile off the coast of Altona. Water began to flow into their boat, and it sank within minutes, leaving the two fighting for their lives. Trever Borg and his dad Laurie, who were fishing nearby at the time, spotted Attard and came to his aid. It didn’t take long for the father and son combination to drag the elderly fisherman onto their boat and onto the beach.
Attard was now safe, but he realized he would lose his beloved puppy forever, so he sought assistance. To find small Jack, volunteers from the Altona Life Saving Club and a water police squad returned to the capsized boat. But it wasn’t until they were able to get the boat out of the water that they discovered the dog. Jack has somehow managed to stay alive inside the boat.
Attard couldn’t stop crying when he learned his companion was still alive. However, there were tears of excitement and delight! “He made me cry,” the fisherman told the Herald Sun. “I’d owned him for 18 years and thought he was done.” “He follows me wherever I go.”
Here is the video!
