Suffolk County Police Marine Bureau officers rescued two people from the Great South Bay after their sailboat overturned.
On August 17, two men were on a sailboat in the Great South Bay, one mile south of the East Islip Marina, when the 19-foot sailboat overturned at 5 p.m. One of the occupants called 911 from his cell phone, and Lt. Thomas Stanzoni and Police Officers Robert Reuter and Kevin Butler, aboard Marine Juliet, responded. The officers rescued a 48-year-old who was hanging onto the mast in the water and a 58-year-old who was sitting on the side of the boat.
Both men were wearing life jackets and were not injured. The Coast Guard Auxiliary towed the boat to the marina.