A shrimp boat captain successfully delivered a baby 30 miles offshore.

Captain Ed Kiesel used a new roll of paper towels and a first aid handbook to successfully deliver Cindy Preisel's baby boy on Tuesday, even though the baby's feet emerged first.

Realizing that the baby was in breech position, Kiesel didn't panic but waited for a contraction to scoop the baby out by taking out his shoulders first and then head.

"I reached with my fingers... as gently as I could and popped out his left shoulder and then his right," he told the Associated Press.

However, the newborn wasn't breathing at the time of birth so Kiesel started administering gentle CPR. "...Just a little puff every three seconds," Kiesel said.

After 20 to 25 minutes of CPR, the newborn gulped in air and began to take short breaths. His lips soon turned pink with the blood flow and the baby also uttered his first cry.

Using the net twine, sterilized in boiling water, Kiesel tied off the umbilical cord thus freeing the newborn free from his mother.

A relieved mother Preisel said, "...Its hard to put into words." Preisel named the baby Brian Edward Mawhorr, after his father and the captain who delivered him.

Little Brian Edward weighed in at 7.5 pounds and he wasn't due until mid-September.