NEW YORK — The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for one person missing in the water approximately fives miles southeast of Breezy Point after five people were recovered from a sinking boat on Sunday afternoon.
Four of the five rescued were unresponsive. Coast Guard rescue crews and assisting agencies, including the Sandy Hook Pilots and the New York Police Department Aviation Unit, recovered and transported the five individuals, with two airlifted to Staten Island University Hospital and three taken to Coast Guard Station Sandy Hook where emergency medical services were waiting. Coast Guard crews administered CPR to some of the unresponsive victims.
The incident began at 12:04 p.m. when Coast Guard Sector New York received a notification from New York City 911 operators about a vessel taking on water near Breezy Point, a neighborhood at the tip of Queens’ Rockaway peninsula. Coast Guard watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast and deployed three rescue boats from Coast Guard Station New York and Station Sandy Hook and an MH-65 helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City. NYPD, FDNY, and New Jersey State Police crews are assisting in the multi-agency response.