Stories & narrationAwesome!What Would You Do If You Saw a Bear Drowning? It Happened And This Man Did The Unthinkable
What Would You Do If You Saw a Bear Drowning? It Happened And This Man Did The Unthinkable
Long-form5:27People & BlogsPublished Oct 17, 2026, 10:00 PM · 3d ago
Views
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15
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Engagement
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Likes
175
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Rank in channel
#13
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Description
What Would You Do If You Saw a Bear Drowning? It Happened And This Man Did the Unthinkable
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Face-to-face with the bear
00:42 Why it needed relocating
01:32 The bear heads into the bay
02:29 Keeping its head above water
04:23 Real photographs, a false story
SOURCES:
- Man Saves Black Bear From Drowning — CBS News / AP — June 30, 2008
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-saves-black-bear-from-drowning/
- Adam Warwick interview — Animal Radio — May 30, 2015
https://animalradio.com/053015.html
- Fact Check: Russian Visitor Ivan Stepanov Did NOT Rescue Drowning Bear From Lake Tahoe — A Stolen Story — Lead Stories — August 14, 2025
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/08/fact-check-russian-ivan-stepanov-did-not-rescue-bear-from-lake-tahoe.html
Rescue photographs: Becky Bickerstaff, provided to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Narration and commentary: *By Jon for Awesome!*
#SavingBear #BlackBear #SaveDrowningBear
Tags
AwesomeAwesome!Adam Warwickbear rescue375 pound bearman saves drowning bearFlorida black bearAlligator Pointwildlife rescueanimal rescuewildlife biologisttrue rescue story
Details
- Published
- Oct 17, 2026, 10:00 PM
- Length
- 5:27 (327 s)
- Format
- Long-form
- Category
- People & Blogs
- Audio language
- EN
- Quality
- HD
- Captions
- No
- Made for kids
- No
- Licensed content
- Yes
- Video ID
- 4SKUtVmT6Jo
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