Ammon News - A Florida fisherman saved a young girl from drowning in a riptide by using a drone to drop a life preserver.

Andrew Smith, of Pensacola, was scouting the water off Fort Pickens Beach for sharks with his SwellPro Fisherman Max drone when he spotted a young girl, who was not identified, caught up in a riptide, Fox 4 Now reported.

'There was this girl screaming: "Can anybody swim?"' he recalled to the outlet.

Smith, who cannot swim, was desperate to help her when he noticed several life preservers on the beach on Thursday.

Using his drone, he grabbed one and flew it to the girl.

'I flew it out there and I missed really bad on the first drop,' he told Fox 10. 'A lady grabbed another one for me. I was pretty nervous, we flew it out there and we got it down to her.'

Video footage, shot by fellow beachgoer Robert Nay, showed Smith's second attempt of getting the floatation device down to her.

The drone can be seen dragging the device through heavy wind and gray skies as it drops to nearly water level for the girl to grab onto. Daily Mail