TITANIC star Leonardo DiCaprio helped save the life of man who fell off a cruise ship and spent 11 hours treading water.
The actor’s luxury vessel diverted to search rough seas, finding him at dusk as a storm closed in.
A source told The Sun: “Leonardo played a blinding role in his own real-life Hollywood movie. He saved the life of a man overboard who incredibly had survived by treading water for 11 hours. Leonardo’s boat was the only vessel looking for him.
“The captain put the man's chances of survival at one in a billion — like winning the lottery twice.”
The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actor, 45, was with lover Camila Morrone, 22, and pals when his vessel heard a Mayday call on December 30.
A drunk French crewman, 24, had fallen from a Club Med yacht near St Martin in the Caribbean.
Leo - who secured global fame as Jack Dawson opposite Kate Winslet’s Rose DeWitt Bukater in 1997 blockbuster Titanic - agreed to abandon their private jaunt and embark on a hunt off the island of St Barts.
The severely dehydrated man, known only as Victor, was spotted by Leo’s crew near Saba island.
As the actor looked on, Victor was hauled aboard and sobbed: “I should have died.”
He was given food, drink and clothes before being passed to coastguards.
Source The Sun
