A man in Gloucester sprang into action and jumped into the harbor last week to help two strangers.Jayden, who is nonverbal, loves walking the boulevard in Gloucester. He uses his tablet to communicate and takes it everywhere. Last week, he took the tablet on a walk along the water with his mom, Kim Brisbois.”He was happy, doing his thing, jumping and tapping,” she said.As they walked, Jayden did something he had never done before: He tossed his tablet right into the water.Bernard Christie was in the area at the time and didn’t think twice. “I’m like, ‘I’m going in — it’s no problem. I’m going in,'” he said. “I just wanted to help. Nobody else was around. I’m not going to have them wait for the harbor master or whoever to come. It makes someone smile. It’s to make someone’s day.”Christie jumped into the frigid water, grabbed the floating iPad and handed it up to his wife. It wasn’t until he got back on land that he learned the tablet is Jayden’s only means of communication.”I’m so thankful for those kinds of skills. It helps give people a voice who don’t normally have one, so it’s awesome,” Christie said.A bystander recorded the incident and shared it with the pair. If you look closely, you can see wings tattooed on Christie’s back. Jayden’s mom saw them, too.”The most amazing thing. I saw those wings (on his back), and my husband passed away in June, so he truly is my guardian angel, and it was, it was amazing,” Brisbois said.

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