Leonardo DiCaprio saves man from drowning in the Caribbean

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Aside from his already very impressive roster, it appears that Leonardo DiCaprio can add being a hero to the list.

Per the Evening Standard, the actor helped rescue a man who had fallen from a cruise ship in the Caribbean.

The 45-year-old was reportedly on his boat with friends when the received a Mayday call, which informed then that a 24-year-old Frenchman had fallen from a Club Med yacht into the water near St Martin, while inebriated.

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DiCaprio then allegedly launched a search mission for the missing individual, who has only been identified as Victor.

The actor - who rose to fame with the 1997 Hollywood blockbuster, Titanic - and his friends were the only party who went looking for the man as a storm set in on the 30th December, a source said, according to the publication.
"The Club Med cruise worker had fallen overboard after too much alcohol and a long night," the source told The Sun. "The captain put the man's chances of survival at one in a billion. Like winning the lottery twice.”

DiCaprio, who starred in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood last year, then finally spotted the man close to the island of Saba.

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Victor purportedly cried as he was pulled aboard, saying "I should have died". He was then given food, drink and clothing before being transported to coastguards.

“Leonardo played a blinding role in his own real-life Hollywood movie,” the unidentified source continued to The Sun. "He saved the life of a man overboard who incredibly had survived by treading water for 11 hours."