If you figured former Miami Dolphins players spent their NFL retirements fishing off the South Florida coast, you'd be right, only it's not always smooth sailing, as Rob Konrad can now attest.
In a strange saga you probably found far-fetched even when it was scripted into an episode of "Dexter," the erstwhile Syracuse fullback swam nine miles to the Palm Beach coast after falling off his fishing boat, according to the Associated Press.
If Konrad's story to police is to be believed, he fell from his 36-foot boat trying to reel in a fish and couldn't get back aboard the auto-piloted vessel, so he swam to shore. According to WPBF-TV, friends alerted authorities when the 38-year-old didn't show up for dinner, and the U.S. Coast Guard sent out a helicopter search party.
Except, the Coast Guard didn't discover the 6-foot-3 Konrad, who played at 255 pounds, until he reportedly turned up wearing only his underwear on the shores of South Florida around 4 a.m. Needless to say, he was treated for potential hypothermia when he arrived.
"He was lucky he was able to swim nine miles throughout the night in the dark in the frigid waters," Coast Guard public affairs specialist Mark Barney told Syracuse.com. "He was pretty exhausted."
You think? Just to recap, Konrad allegedly swam through what the Florida Museum of Natural History has statistically proven to be the world's most shark-infested waters for ROUGHLY 10 HOURS!
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