Six passengers had been aboard the small boat that overturned in the Ambrose Channel on Sunday. At least three of them died, officials said, and one man could not be found.
Six passengers had been aboard the small boat that overturned in the Ambrose Channel on Sunday. At least three of them died, officials said, and one man could not be found.
Rescue crews were still searching for a man after a small boat overturned in the Ambrose Channel on Sunday. At least three of the six people aboard died and two remained hospitalized, officials said.
Cecilio Adames met up with five friends Sunday morning at a dock in Howard Beach, Queens. The group planned to go fishing on a boat one of them owned.
It was not fishing season, and the air was a frigid 36 degrees, but Mr. Adames was “excited” to be going out in good company, his daughter Alisha Adames, 16, said.
Hours later, detectives knocked on the family’s door. The boat had capsized and Mr. Adames was at a Staten Island hospital, they said. When the family got there, the police said he was dead.
The 30-foot-long Grady-White boat Mr. Adames and his friends were on had taken on water around noon on Sunday in the Ambrose Channel, the main shipping channel in and out of the Port of New York and New Jersey, the authorities said. The boat capsized about five miles southeast of Breezy Point, a private beach community in Queens.
The U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement that five people had been recovered from the boat and that four were unresponsive. The New York Police Department confirmed that at least three of those four had died. As of Monday morning two were still hospitalized, one in critical condition and the other listed as stable, a police spokeswoman said.
The sixth passenger was still missing Monday, and divers, boat crews and aircrews were searching the area, the Coast Guard said. The authorities identified the missing man as Vernon Glasford, 52.
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