Four Rescued From Sinking Boat In Great South Bay

GREAT RIVER, NY - Two men and two women were rescued from a sinking boat in the Great South Bay on Sunday evening, according to Suffolk Police.

A boater in distress used a cell phone to call Sea Tow’s Great South Bay Headquarters at 5:30 p.m. indicating their boat, with four adults onboard, was taking on water from an unknown problem.

An employee at Sea Tow used a marine VHF radio to notify the Suffolk Police Marine Bureau there was a boat sinking a quarter mile south of Timber Point Marina in Great River.

Officers responded immediately and arrived within minutes to find the vessel, a 1987 19-foot Four Winns, completely under water and the four people, 56-year-old Juliann Gibson of Islip Terrace; 53-year-old Jacqueline Calderon, of Islip Terrace; 57-year-old Charles Doxsee, of Mastic Beach and 53-year-old Kenneth Marmo, of Islip, were in need of rescue.

Some of the group were wearing life preservers while others clung to floating cushions and a cooler.

The officers assisted all four and helped them aboard the rescue boat.

All four were then transported to Timber Point Marina and refused medical attention.

The officers returned to the sunken boat and towed it ashore preventing it from becoming a navigational hazard.

Photo: SCPD