A dream summer season trip in paradise this week has became a nightmare for a Prosper household.
A 42-year-old husband and father is in intensive care in a Miami hospital after against the law within the Bahamas that just about price him his life.
After a flight from DFW that arrived within the Bahamas on Monday, the Slough household could not wait to pose for a photograph on the seashore earlier than a 10-day trip in Exuma.
However minutes later, on the primary day of the journey, one thing occurred within the water that will change their lives without end.
Slough household
“Similar to a 20-minute snorkel, you already know, proper there on the seashore, proper earlier than we ate,” stated Whitney Slough.
Whitney Slough stated her husband, Brent, and their two daughters had been snorkeling solely about 20 ft from the seashore when a small boat appeared alongside the shoreline.
“I noticed this boat dashing so near shore, and I used to be like, ‘what the hell?'” Whitney Slough stated.
“I felt like a thump thump, and I used to be like, ‘did I simply get hit by a ship?'” stated Brent Slough.
A 42-year-old former Military Ranger, Brent Slough virtually had the decrease half of his physique sliced off by the propeller blade because it plowed over him.
“His backside was virtually fully indifferent from his legs,” stated Whitney Slough.
“My left leg wasn’t functioning, and I felt like one thing was mistaken with my decrease physique,” Brent Slough stated.
The trauma amplified when the couple’s teenage daughter needed to rescue her father with a float.
In the meantime, the boat, captured on a safety digital camera, stored going.
“So I surfaced and I seemed to my proper and I see two guys in a ship and certainly one of them seems to be again they usually simply carry on going,” Brent Slough stated.
What adopted was a harrowing journey behind a truck to an ambulance jet that will take Brent Slough to a hospital within the U.S.
“The physician instructed me, ‘please get to a hospital in Miami, it’s essential to get to the U.S. for one thing this traumatic,” stated Brent Slough.
The accidents embody a number of leg fractures and deep gashes that medical doctors say may nonetheless be life-threatening in the event that they change into contaminated.
However the couple is aware of it could possibly be worse.
“This was God getting us by this 100%,” Whitney Sough stated.
With their daughters nonetheless within the Bahamas, their mom is heading again and on a mission: She is decided to seek out the boys on this boat.
“Oh, they will be discovered,” she stated.
Whitney Slough worries that authorities will not discover the boat accountable with out her persistence.
“It is towards the legislation to be inside 200 ft of the shore,” Whitney Slough stated. “Brent was about 20 ft out … I simply want they’d flip themselves in, but when they do not flip themselves in, then we have now to seek out them.”
A household trip that ought to be carefree, however as a substitute became horror for the Prosper household, which can finally need assistance arranging an costly personal ambulance flight from Miami to Dallas. Buddies of the household have began a GoFundMe for bills.
“It breaks my coronary heart as a result of we’re not on trip collectively, and we’re not with our women on the identical time,” stated Whitney Slough. “I am so grateful that he is alive.”
If there’s one factor that the Sloughs stated others can study from their expertise, it is how a lot they need that they had journey medical insurance coverage for a visit overseas.
CBS Information Texas contacted authorities within the Bahamas concerning the investigation, however haven’t been in a position to attain anybody acquainted with the case.
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