The dad who hopped into the East River Saturday to save his little girl Bridget says he feels "bad and really guilty and horrible" for letting her out of his sight, even though it was only for about ten seconds. David Anderson snapped a picture of his 2-year-old on the gangplank of a ship museum docked at South Street Seaport. After reviewing the shot, he deleted it, then looked up to find his daughter gone. A peek over the railing revealed she was floating in the water 20 feet below. "She was lying there motionless. I thought I might have just lost my little girl. There were 15 people walking up the ramp and I just broke through them like they weren't there," recalls the dad, an unemployed former ski patrol worker.
Anderson was aided by a mysterious Frenchman who hasn't been tracked down by the press, and the rescue went off without a hitch, reports the Daily News. "Thank God, Bridget's perfectly fine," said the dad, who called the incident an "Easter Miracle" "You would have thought she was in a bathtub. She came out with not a scratch, not a mark, nothing." In observation of the holiday, the family visited the cemetery where the little girl's grandma and namesake is buried. "I saw her grave, and just thought, 'Thank God there's only one Bridget here," Anderson told the Post.
