Rescuer Niels receives award for rescuing baby from Volendam harbor: ‘It happened in a flash’ | Inland

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Damian Theunis on the lap of his mother Darlene and next to it his rescuer Niels Tuip.

Damian Theunis on the lap of his mother Darlene and next to it his rescuer Niels Tuip.

VOLENDAM – Little Damian Theunis will have a cool story to tell his friends in a few years: how he was fished out of the Volendam harbor as a toddler. His rescuer Niels Tuip now has an award in his pocket, but actually thinks it’s perfectly normal what he has done.

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