MIAMI BEACH, Fla., June 12.—Miss Svea Bohman, 27 years old, of New York, believed to have been drowned off shore here late yesterday in attempting to save an unidentified man from drowning, returned here shortly after noon today, after being rescued in the Gulf Stream.
Miss Bohman, while in the surf, responded to the cries of a man in distress almost a mile from shore near the Government Jetties.
On her return here today she said that she was carried out to sea after failing to reach the man and soon developed cramps, which prevented her from swimming back to shore. Darkness found her floating in the Gulf Stream beyond the sight of land, she said, and for five hours she swam and floated in the current before being rescued by a fishing craft, which proceeded with her to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She appeared little the worse for her experience.
Evening Star, Washington, DC, June 12, 1926