Florida man has problems? Not like this...

 

An Alaska man walking on a shoreline wound up clinging to a 

chunk of ice for more than 30 minutes in frigid water when the 

shoreline ice broke loose and carried him out into Cook Inlet.

Jamie Snedden, 45, of Homer, was rescued on Saturday near the community of Anchor Point on the Kenai Peninsula. He was taken to a hospital, where he was treated for hypothermia. He was expected to fully recover, Alaska wildlife troopers said.

Snedden “was reported to have been walking along the shoreline on the ice when it broke free and drifted into Cook Inlet with the outgoing current”, a troopers spokesman, Tim DeSpain, said.

Snedden was swept about 300 yards (274 meters) out into the inlet, near the mouth of the Anchor River.

Jeremy Baum, an Alaska wildlife trooper, arrived and saw only Snedden’s head and arms visible above water as he clung to the ice chunk. Snedden was not wearing any type of personal flotation device.