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Last updated on Wednesday, February 28, 2018
(SPENCER CO.) - An Indiana State Trooper assigned to the Jasper Post is being credited with saving the life of a kayaker.
While on patrol in Spencer County Tuesday afternoon, Trooper Kaitlyn Greene, an Underwater Search and Rescue Diver, was waived down by the wife of a kayaker who was nearly submerged underwater and clinging to a metal culvert pipe.
The kayaker was able to grab the top of the pipe before he was swept underwater and through the culvert.
When Greene arrived, the kayaker was clinging to life, only able to keep his head and arms above water.
With the help of two motorists who stopped to assist, Greene used a rope to pull the kayaker to safety.
Greene told one person to hold the rope attached to the victim, while she pulled the victim from the pipe and to safety.
The second Good Samaritan held onto Greene, so she wouldn't fall headfirst into the water.
The man was treated at the scene for cold water exposure.
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