Officer Hospitalized After Two Rescued From Sinking Sailboat On Long Island
Two men were rescued from a sinking 25-foot sailboat overnight on Long Island.
Suffolk County police officers William Houst, John Mullins, Michael Klarmann, and Steven Squires, onboard Marine X-Ray, responded to a 911 call of a boat sinking in Fire Island Pines Harbor at approximately 1 a.m. Saturday, May 29.
The lines on the sailboat broke and were being smashed against the dock and other boats. Chris Sinforter, age 32, of Brooklyn, and Christian Teneyck, age 37, of Jersey City, were onboard the sinking sailboat and unable to get off safely due to high seas, according to police.
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Long Island Man Killed In Two-Boat Great South Bay Crash
A Long Island man was killed in a two-boat crash.
It happened Sunday, June 28 at approximately 2:40 p.m. in a channel in the Great South Bay, south of Babylon.
David Nostrand, 58, of Farmingdale, was operating a 17-foot 1981 Boston Whaler southbound in West Fox Creek Channel when his vessel struck a northbound 22-foot 1987 Activator motorboat, operated by Ian Morgan, 19, of Lindenhurst, Suffolk County Police said.
A passenger on the Activator, Zachary McCarthy, 25, of Lindenhurst, was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assistant from the office of the Suffolk County Med…
