A mum has told how her baby girl miraculously survived for an hour in water after the family’s boat crashed and capsized.

Tammy Brossard was returning from dinner with her husband and two young daughters when their boat crashed into a wire holding a telephone pole up.

The couple were thrown into the water with infant daughter Charlotte and 23-month-old girl Kennedy when the boat overturn around 11pm on Friday in Cocoa, Florida.

Police and a bystander raced to rescue the stricken family.

Shaken Tammy told Click Orlando: “God was with us. Our boat hit the corner of the power lines and we all ejected.”

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Recounting how she frantically searched for her children in the dark, Tammy said: “I had Charlotte in my hands still and the boat had flipped and I climbed on top of the boat.

“I jumped in the water and we tried to search [for Kennedy]. We couldn’t tell where the crying was coming from.

“We kept searching and searching.”

Witness Dorothy Dixon saw the horror unfold as the distraught mother “kept swimming and looking”.

“The mom and dad did everything they could,” she told Click Orlando.

Incredibly, Tammy was able to salvage her water-damaged mobile phone and raised the alarm.

Police arrived and pulled the distraught parents and baby Charlotte to safety but were unable to locate little Kennedy, even with the help of a helicopter.

It was then that they realised the tot was under the boat.

Rescuers braved the dark waters with no life jackets or oxygen tanks to rescue the toddler, who was found shaken but uninjured around 45 minutes later.
A spokesman for the Cocoa Police Department said: “Officer Rush and Worthy pulled the child out from under the boat and got her to paramedics for treatment.

“Usually, instances like this don’t turn out like that.

“A boating accident that severe, with that much damage, could’ve been a lot worse.

“The air pocket in the boat and the life jacket saved her life.”

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