Coasties rescue man, boy, dog after boat capsizes
Seaman Tristan Beatty holds “Pepper” who was rescued from the Long Island Sound waters off Cedar Beach, N.Y., along with an adult male and 9-year-old boy, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018, in Babylon, N.Y. (Petty Officer 1st Class Steven Strohmaier/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)
U.S. Coast Guard crew members have rescued a man, his 9-year-old son and their dog after the family’s fishing boat capsized off Long Island.
The Coast Guard says it responded to a radio call at 8:30 a.m. Saturday about a capsized boat near the Fire Island Inlet.
Newsday reports that the boat belongs to 47-year-old Brian Bair, who was fishing with his son Nolan and their yellow Lab, Pepper.
Brian Bair’s wife, Jennifer Bair, tells Newsday that a “freak rogue wave” crashed into the boat and it capsized.
Crew members on the Coast Guard’s 45-foot (14-meter) response boat spotted the father, son and dog at about 8:45 a.m. and pulled them onto the boat.
The Coast Guard says only Nolan was wearing a life jacket.
At least the lad had flotation, Mr. Blair is very fortunate. Pepper, being a retriever possibly was the safest of the group. Nice work, Coasties!
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I hear the Coast Guard calls all the time when sailing on the Sound…they do amazing work out there.
The Sound is one of the most heavily policed bodies of water in the US due to three overlapping state water police and the Coast Guard and the US Navy…we still manage a few “floaters” (dead boaters) every year because people aren’t really all that sharp out on the water.
Nicely done in this case, nothing more depressing than hearing a call go out for a search for a child in the water…
“nothing more depressing than hearing a call go out for a search for a child in the water…”
Except maybe when it is a hoax call.
The old FCC monitoring site in Belfast Maine was instrumental in identifying at least two individuals many years ago.
The site is now automated but in a network that can access other sites and narrow it down to an individual street address.
That was ten years ago.
Imagine what is possible today.
Nicely done!
Nice grab Coasties and hopefully the pooch didn’t have a Ruff time while in the drink.
A Lab? Hell, the Coasties probably had a hell of a time getting a Lab OUT of the water!
LOL! Owned two Goldens and a Chocolate Lab in my time- the best way to get them out of the water was to introduce soap and a scrub brush. Worked every time.
Haha!
I’m a Chesapeake Bay Retriever fan.
Raised four and awaiting a fifth maybe next Spring. It’s been a couple years and I am miserable without one.
I live on a lake.
A Chessie will not come out of the water unless it has something to bring with it.
When I lived in Long Beach NY, I had the Marine Coast Guard frequencies in my Icom RC-7100 which also had cell phone and cordless phone capabilities. Very interesting listening. When the Challenger went down, I switched over to my Drake R7 Receiver and went to the HF frequencies and listened to some of the recovery operations. I had Bronchitis at the time so I was home from work. When the Atlantic Beach Coast Guard Station closed up, the First class BM was a member of the Long Beach Volunteer Fire Dept and he gave us the soda vending machine which we put into the HQ’S den. John Varner was his name in case any of you Vets may have possibly known him. He’s been retired for awhile now and last I heard he was in PA.
We just had a fatality last weekend, up the coast from the LI Sound, with a rogue wave that capsized a small fishing boat. It was reported to be a 10 foot wave… beats me. They were in shallow water at the time, both men were thrown from the boat and both sustained serious injuries. The fatality was a drowning.
I have the Potomac River to the south, the Patuxent River to the north, and the Chesapeake Bay, east. No lack of fools on the water here, unfortunately.
For sure. I have sailed that area many times. It never ceases to amaze me that drunks will hit the jetty into Herring Bay as though it simply was not there.
Heh. Used to crew on a 37 foot racing yawl; we called the mouth of the Patuxent our very own Devil’s Triangle, where changing wind, current, and tide made sailing there a challenge, every time.
Don’t get me started about Solomon’s Island and the infamous Tiki bar there. Out of the channel it gets real shallow real quick- seen any number of idiots stuck there, waiting for a very expensive sailing lesson.
The only place and only time I ever had spatial disorientation was cruising up from Norfolk to South River… right where the Pax river enters the bay. Had it not been for the depth sounder curing my disbelief, I’d have probably run aground. It was at night and visibility was good. I was just off course and didn’t want to believe it.
Fishing for drum at the opening to the Choptank is worth getting wet and bounced around a bit.
Life jackets save lives. The boat operator was an idiot for not wearing his. I’ve been in those waters. Just like there is not enough time to put a seat belt on between the time you see the crash coming and the crash, thee is never time to put on a life jacket before going into the water. They also make life jackets for dogs, we’ve demo’d them and worth the money if you care about your pet.
+100. Staying with the boat, if at all possible, is vital as well for a couple of reasons. Much bigger visual target than a couple of heads bobbing in the water, and it may provide more flotation.
I’d like too read about one of these folks buying the coasties a few rounds at the local pub.