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According to authorities, the four anglers from the Gulf Harbors Fishing Club had gone for a fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico on a 22-foot fishing boat at 7 a.m. That afternoon, they were about 11 miles off shore when water conditions began to get choppy and they decided to head back. However their motor failed, so they tried to anchor themselves in about 20 feet of water when two 6- to 7-foot waves washed over the transom and the boat capsized.
None of the four boaters were wearing life jackets, and the rough seas quickly separated them by over 100 yards. Bush, the youngest of the group by "decades," tried to find things for his fishing companions to float on.
"I swam back and forth in between them ... grabbing other things that were floating and handing it to them and tried to dive underneath the boat and tried to get the life jackets out, but they were just so caught up underneath I just couldn't get them," Bush told Bay News 9.
Bush "was trying to keep (Green's) head out of the water, but it was impossible with those water conditions and without flotation devices," Capt. Mitch Coratella of the charter fishing boat the Blue Fin, told the St. Petersburg Times.
Coratella and his crew were in the area and realized someone was in trouble when they spotted shoes, hats and boating debris floating by.
Bush, who was still trying to keep Green's head from going under, spotted the charter boat in the distance and started waving his neon green sunglasses and his hat. One of the passengers on board the Blue Fin spotted the flash of green and notified Coratella, who turned the boat around and picked the group up. The four had been in the water for 45 minutes, and despite Bush's efforts, officials say Green was dead when he was pulled on board.
The teen "was treading water. He didn't have any flotation device at all. I really don't know how he held onto the guy for that long," Coratella said. "The young guy really felt bad. He was shaken pretty hard."
In a statement, Green's family thanked Bush for saving the other men and said they were deeply grateful to Bush for his efforts to save Green.
"Just amazing, I mean, [he's] a very brave young man," Donna Walls, one of the crew members of the Blue Finn, told Bay News 9.
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