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Trapped men saved by American hero

THE ideal man was on the spot as a car skidded into a canal and sank with two people trapped inside.

Strolling along the canal bank there just happened to be an all-American action man, Kenneth Keusenkothen, 26, a former instructor in whitewater kayaking.

He had been anticipating a fairly quiet time as tour guide for a group of his fellow countrymen on a 12-day canal cruise but without hesitation he stripped to his underwear and dived into the cold, inky black water of the Caledonian Canal in Inverness, submerging at least ten times to reach the car to prise open a door and rescue the two trapped men.

The rescue seemed particularly fortunate for one of the men. Steven Brown’s brother and grandfather died…

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