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"His face looked like porcelain with his short hair wetted down," Mr Hutt told the Whakatāne Beacon . "But then he let out a little squeak and I thought, 'oh God, this is a baby and it's alive'. He was floating at a steady pace with a rip in the water. If I hadn't been there, or if I had just been a minute later I wouldn't have seen him."
