Flagler Beach Ocean Rescue and Flagler Beach Fire Departments saved a deer at Flagler Beach. After the rescue, the deer was released in the woods.

Chase Hunter, a senior lifeguard with Flagler Beach Ocean Rescue, said he initially didn't think a deer was floating out in the waves. Ocean Rescue and the Flagler Beach Fire Department were responding to a call of a deer spotted in the water on the south end of the beach July 6.

A deer swimming far off the Flagler Beach coast was rescued Sunday by two lifeguards who braved circling sharks.On Sunday afternoon, Flagler Beach lifeguards Chase Hunter and Leo Peters told WESH, the deer was struggling,