A man in Minnesota saw a Facebook post about some deer stuck on the ice in the middle of a frozen lake.

The exhausted animals had been sprawled out there for a couple days, so James pretty much became a hero when he and his dad used their hovercraft vehicles to stage a rescue.

They shot video with a GoPro camera recording their unique life-saving antics atop icy Albert Lea Lake.

(WATCH the video below, posted on YouTube Feb. 11 by GoPro)