It’s not known how the male got out there, but it’s likely that the tide was lower at that time. It happens a few times a year where people venture out, and then of course...

The way the rescue was actually accomplished was the crews waded across lower down the river and then they moved upstream and they walked him back downstream.

He was cold and wet but he was apparently in fairly good spirits after the rescue.

At this point nobody really knows why he was in the river.