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Sunderland hot shot Duncan Watmore has saved three holiday makers after a horrific boat crash in the Caribbean.

Watmore was cruising on a speedboat off the coast of Barbados with girlfriend Sophie when their vessel was struck by a speeding catamaran.

The impact knocked the 23-year-old and his partner overboard along with three elderly passengers.

Heroic Watmore managed to grab onto the travellers before coastguards rushed out to assist the sinking group.

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Not content with saving the others from drowning, he then used his t-shirt to stop the bleeding after one of the passengers suffered a severe leg cut.

Watmore was out on a fishing trip while staying at the Colony Club on the island.

One of the rescued passenger told the Sun : “It was scary, life or death. I’m lucky not to be coming back in a box.

“We assumed [the catamaran] would see us and change course, but it then got closer.

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“Duncan helped everybody to get on to the boat — he couldn’t have been nicer.”

Watmore was ruled out of the rest of this season in December after he suffered a knee cruciate ligament injury.

To help his recovery, Black Cats boss David Moyes ordered the England under 21 ace to go away on holiday.