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Sunderland footballer Duncan Watmore in boat rescue

A Premier League footballer saved three holidaymakers after a boat crash, it has emerged.

Sunderland forward Duncan Watmore was on the fishing boat in Barbados when it was hit, and broken in two, by a catamaran.

He managed to haul three elderly passengers out of the water from the boat just before it sank.

His father, Ian Watmore, said the catamaran had "just ploughed straight into the boat and ripped it in half".

"They saw it and just assumed it was going to go round them and, when they realised it was coming straight at them, they started yelling and screaming but nothing changed," he said.