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Road to Recovery
A story full of bravery, faith, and perseverance; read about Carter’s road to recovery here.
Hit by a boat in the ocean, he watched his arm fall off. Now Carter Viss tells his tale of survival
Marine biologist Carter Viss, struck by a Palm Beach pleasure craft, makes ocean safety his calling.
Joe Capozzi | Palm Beach Post
Carter Viss wants to tell you what it was like to get run over by a 36-foot motorboat in the Atlantic Ocean last Thanksgiving Day.
He wants to show you the damage inflicted on his four limbs by propeller blades powered by a 400-horsepower engine.
He wants to share the horror that gripped him as he watched his right arm, freshly severed above the elbow, sink to the bottom of a reef.
He wants the public to have some sense of the gut-wrenching toll his accident has taken on so many lives — not just on him but on his friend, Andy Earl, who was the first rescuer to reach him, the stranger on the paddleboard who used her hands as a tourniquet, the doctors who debated whether to amputate his legs, his parents who have chronicled their son’s ordeal in an emotional online journal, even the Palm Beacher who piloted the triple-engine Yellowfin that nearly killed him.
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