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Brave baseball fan rescues match tickets from San Francisco Bay (edited)

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A funny video has emerged of a man diving into San Francisco Bay, USA on Thursday to retrieve a set of baseball tickets.

The video shows good samaritan Mario Morales diving into the water fully clothed to rescue four tickets for the St Louis Cardinals vs San Francisco Giants game which had fallen out of a woman's handbag.

According to Morales, the woman was boarding a ferry carrying tickets for herself and three friends before a sudden gust of wind blew the tickets into the water.

Thanks to Morales' heroics, the tickets were retrieved and the woman and her friends were later able to attend the match:

"This beautiful damsel in distress was given four tickets from a friend who is a season ticket holder. They were printed by her friend so she had no paperless backup.

She was taking the ferry for the first time ever and she was going to meet three other friends at the stadium with the tickets.

When boarding the ferry to the stadium she reached into her bag to get her ferry tickets. She took out the tickets and a gust of wind blew them out of her hand and into the bay. Remember she had three excited friends waiting for her at the stadium counting on her to show up with the tickets.

She ran off the boat, down the gangplank and was about to jump in herself. I stopped her and saw the distress in her eyes and I told her, "ma'am I can't let you do that." That's when I sat on the water’s edge, took off my shoes and did what any able person would have done.

My 10 years as a Marine kicked in. Being an Advanced Combat Tactics Instructor, WSQ and Scuba Certified, this was a day at the beach for me.

The ticket office accepted her story and one of the barcodes was still readable from one of the tickets that went overboard. Her group was allowed access to the game and we met up at the 7th inning stretch to celebrate," Morales later wrote online.

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