Sunderland's Watmore saves 3 lives while on vacation

Sunderland attacker Duncan Watmore has saved the lives of three elderly passengers whose boat crashed during a Barbados holiday.

Watmore, 23, was aboard a fishing boat that was struck and split in two by a catamaran that "ploughed straight into the boat and ripped it in half," according to his father, Ian, courtesy of the Independent.

Three elderly passengers - one of whom was an 80-year-old and one who could not swim - were rescued by Watmore as the boat sunk.

"They saw it and just assumed it was going to go round them and, when they realised it was coming straight at them, they started yelling and screaming but nothing changed," Ian Watmore added.

"These catamarans are quite powerful and the blade just ripped the thing in half."

Watmore, who has been sidelined since December with a cruciate knee ligament injury, lifted the trio of elderly passengers onto the catamaran as well as the fishing boat's skipper before using his T-shirt to bandage the woman's leg which was "bleeding heavily."

"All the guests were coming up to him and telling him what a hero he was and I think the whole thing was just very disorientating for him," Ian Watmore confirmed.