Father and daughter stuck on the rocks off the coast of Staten island

Father and daughter stuck on the rocks off the coast of Staten island

On Monday evening, 54-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter living in new Jersey, decided to ride with the breeze on a ten-meter sailing boat.

But after some time when they have to overcome, just one mile to South Beach in Staten island, their ship ran aground and started to fill with water.

It happened around 18:30, between the two artificial Islands in the Lower new York Bay – Hoffman and Swinburne.

To help them trying to come to members of the coast guard and new York police, however, the rescue ship could not approach the sandbar due to its size.

However, the police have arrived to the family, Peres inflatable boats. A man and his daughter were taken to a safe place, of the wounds they received.

#HappeningNow NYPD SCUBA deploys a inflatable zodiac boat to safely rescue 2 occupants of a boat that ran aground in the v/o Hoffman Island. pic.twitter.com/aOy8vPFOPx

— NYPD Special Ops (@NYPDSpecialops) August 28, 2017

«The team is the new York police Department brought action inflatable boat Zodiac in order to safely rescue the two passengers of the sailing ship that ran aground near the island Hoffman».

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