By The sea is big and scary. James Joyce once referred to it as "the scrotumtightening sea", which is true on a fair few levels. Many have suffered at its huge, wet hands, and few more than noted drownee Leo DiCaprio.
However, 23 years after sinking to the floor of the Atlantic Ocean at the end of Titanic, DiCaprio finally had a chance to avenge his on-screen death by plucking a man out of the sea before it could eat him too, 11 hours after the poor fella had fallen off a passing cruise ship.
According to the Daily Mail, DiCaprio was kicking about around St Barts in the Caribbean on 30 December, when the captain got a call telling him that a 24-year-old Frenchman had fallen into the sea relatively nearby, and that they were needed to help with an urgent rescue hunt.
Leo agreed to head out looking for the man in choppy seas, and incredibly, the yacht he was on spotted the man waving in the water just before nightfall. The boat's captain described the successful rescue as a "one in a billion shot".
And to those who say that it's perhaps misleading to make it sound like DiCaprio went the full Captain Ahab, lashing himself to the wheel to sail into the teeth of a fearsome nor'-easter and screaming, we say: that's probably fair.
But Leo still heroically sat on that extremely expensive yacht and had a big look at the sea. And, to our knowledge, he didn't give the guy an invoice when they got to dry land either. So.
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