A fully clothed Bobby Darin leaped into rough water from a motor boat off Kings Beach at Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border when he heard a young boy screaming for help about 150 feet from shore. He rescued the drowning youth and took him back to shore.

But refusing a heroes welcome singer Darin commented: "I'm such a lousy swimmer. If it had been any farther, someone would of had to save us both."

Bobby in September 1971

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