The US Coast Guard was looking out Monday for a sixth one that should be lacking a day after a ship capsized between Brooklyn and Staten Island, killing three and leaving two within the hospital.
The 30-foot-long, gray-and-white vessel shoved off from a marina at Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Seashore on Sunday morning, sources informed The Submit.
However someday round midday, a misery name got here from the boat’s spot within the Ambrose Channel, the town’s important delivery lane that cuts between the 2 Large Apple boroughs, cops mentioned.
NYPD divers, the US Coast Guard and different companies descended on the scene and tracked the mobile phone pings to a sunken boat off the coast of New Jersey.
Authorities pulled 5 victims from the chilly waters — 4 of whom had been unconscious throughout the rescue.
They airlifted two individuals to Staten Island Hospital and introduced three others to Coast Guard Station Sandy Hook.
Three victims ultimately died from their accidents. One is in essential situation and the final is steady, cops mentioned.
The Coast Guard mentioned Sunday night its divers had been nonetheless looking for yet one more potential sufferer within the waters southeast of Breezy Level in Queens as a result of a survivor mentioned one particular person was nonetheless unaccounted for.
The NYPD, nonetheless, believes everybody has been discovered.
It’s nonetheless not clear what occurred earlier than the boat flipped, and authorities are nonetheless investigating the accident.
