Members of the crew on a New York ferry rescued a man from the Hudson River this week. It was said to be a great day for New York’s ferry staff as this crew got to put their training to good use and save this man in peril.

The man had no life and had been in the water for about an hour. He looked to be struggling and close to going under. The New York waterway captain commented on the rescue “Everybody you know, worked together quickly and, a lot of training, a lot of drills that we accomplish here and extra drills above what the cost guard requires, helps make any rescue like this successful,”

A deckhand describing the incident described the man as they approached him in the river “Was heaving a little bit of trouble by the time we got there, looked like he was bobbing, so we got there, about, few more minutes or so might have been different but we got him out just in time,”

The drowning man is currently in hospital with now word as yet of his condition. Crew members don’t know how he got into the water and the man was in no condition to comment.

This same ferry also played a role in rescuing 56 people in January when the US Airways Flight 1549 splash landed in the Hudson.