A couple visiting San Diego are breathing a sigh of relief after lifeguards off Mission Beach pulled off a miraculous rescue over the weekend.

Alexis and Brandon were watching football on Sunday when Sadie, their 5-year-old black-lab mix bounded out the front door, who knows where. Luckily, Sadie had an AirTag on her collar and her owners tracked her down to Ocean Beach, a couple miles away. While Alexis and Brandon were headed there, lifeguards at Tower 2 got a report from surfers that a dog — Sadie — had gone down the jetty and was swept out by a rip current.

"Unit 100, I just had a surfer run up to the truck," a lifeguard from Tower 2 radioed in. "He's saying there's a dog that's on the jetty."

"The dog was in the Mission Bay channel and got swept out with the current of the channel,

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