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5 Men Rescued From Capsized Boat In Long Island Sound By Police
The five men stood on the underside of the vessel waiting for police to rescue them after a wave knocked over the boat.
FORT SALONGA, NY — Five men were rescued from the waters of the Long Island Sound by Suffolk County Police Marine Bureau officers after their boat overturned Tuesday afternoon in Fort Salonga.
Marine Bureau officers Dave Froehlich and Patrick Ennis, aboard Marine Bravo, responded to a 911 call for a capsized boat with five people onboard in the Long Island Sound just off the coast of Crab Meadow Beach around 4:40 p.m. The officers found five men standing on the underside of a recreational 21-foot Pro-Line vessel that overturned after being hit by a wave roughly 20 minutes earlier.
Three of the passengers, who were wearing life vests, were able to swim to Marine Bravo. Froehlich and Ennis threw a flotation device to the remaining two men who were not wearing life jackets.
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The boat was towed to a boat ramp in Northport.
Luis Siguenza, 24, Orlando Siguenza, 54, Walter Rodriguez, 35, all of Central Islip, Christian Romeo, 34, of Brentwood, and Guillermo Galdamez, 31, of Westbury, all were not injured.
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