A 10-year-old was struggling to stay above water when a stranger at beach became her hero | CNN

A Georgia teacher was enjoying a day at the beach before the start of the new school year when he heard a cry for help. Without hesitation, Derrick Moore leaped into action. More than 30 yards offshore, a 10-year-old girl was being pulled out by a rip current. The girl, Summer McCallum, was on a beach trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, planned by her uncle to honor the sixth anniversary of her father’s death. Her uncle, Ernest McCallum, had been watching her enjoy a few more minutes in the water as the sun began to fall. But the calm day gave way to terror when her uncle again looked out into the ocean and saw Summer’s head bobbing in and out of the water. As the girl’s uncle sprinted into the ocean, he wasn’t alone. A stranger — Moore — rushed in right behind him. Moore, a 47-year-old elementary school teacher, had spent most of his career teaching children around Summer’s age. At Rockbridge Elementary School outside Atlanta, students lovingly called him “Coach.” Now, he was urgently racing toward a child he had never met. McCallum hit the water and pushed himself toward his niece, using every ounce of his energy to get to her, before the current pulled him un