Officers Rescue Man Whose Kayak Overturned In Great South Bay

Fire Island NY

12 May, 2021

9:16 AM

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GREAT SOUTH BAY, NY — Officers rescued a man whose kayak flipped in the Great South Bay Tuesday morning, according to Suffolk police. Officers were on routine patrol near the Fire Island Inlet, near Buoy 7, when they found an overturned kayak in the water at 11 a.m. A few hundred feet away they found a man in the water clinging to the side of another man's kayak. The man paddling couldn't return his kayak to shore with the man hanging on. Officers Robert Jenkins and Raymond Cairo brought the 31-year-old Flushing man, who was wearing a life jacket, onboard Marine Kilo to take him and his kayak to shore. The man was treated on the boat for exposure to cold water. The kayaker who helped the man was able to return to shore safely.