A horse in a photo shoot on a Southern California beach gets spooked and runs into the water, only to be rescued after swimming more than two miles offshore.
That's what happened to a 7-year-old white Arabian named William, said Santa Barbara Harbor Patrol Officer Ryan Kelly.
The drama unfolded Tuesday about 6:30 p.m. when the horse bolted from the beach in Summerland, just south of Santa Barbara, and ran into the ocean.
"The initial call came in as a missing horse," Kelly said.
Several more calls followed about a horse swimming out to sea.
Rescue personnel from the nearby Carpenteria Fire Department, along with state lifeguards, took to the water to search for the horse, and a helicopter was launched by Santa Barbara County's search and rescue team.
William was spotted more than two miles offshore in the Santa Barbara Channel, swimming toward oil rigs,
according to an incident report.
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For once I feel pleased to be human. I think without human help the poor horse would have died.
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