Greater than a dozen New York Metropolis school college students have been taken to the hospital after their row boat capsized in Eastchester Bay.
In response to the New York Metropolis Fireplace Division (FDNY), athletes, employees and different college students with Fordham College’s men’s club rowing team have been out on the water simply off of Metropolis Island within the Bronx on Saturday afternoon, April 5, when their boat capsized.
The FDNY informed PEOPLE that first responders have been dispatched to the scene after a witness referred to as 911 at round 12:15 p.m. native time, and a civilian boat helped to convey all 19 folks — together with 9 athletes, eight further college students and two coaches — aboard the 2 vessels to shore on the close by peninsula of Rodman’s Neck.
“Fordham can affirm that 9 members of the lads’s membership rowing group have been pulled from the water after their boat capsized as a consequence of a sudden shift in climate circumstances on Eastchester Bay,” Fordham College informed PEOPLE in an announcement.
“New York Metropolis rules required that the 9 student-athletes, and the eight further college students and two coaches who helped them, be taken to space hospitals for examination as a result of the celebration got here ashore on metropolis property at Rodman’s Neck,” the college added. “There have been no accidents, and all the people concerned have been examined and launched.
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In response to Accuweather, New York Metropolis skilled cloudy climate and rain earlier on April 5.
The NYPD Emergency Service Unit and the NYPD Harbor Unit additionally responded to the incident, native outlet PIX 11 reported.
Fordham added to PEOPLE that they misplaced one row boat within the incident.
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In response to the group’s web site, Fordham crew groups prepare within the Lengthy Island Sound, Eastchester Bay and Hutchinson River, in addition to on the Harlem Yacht Membership in Metropolis Island, situated about 4 miles away from the varsity’s campus.
An identical incident in N.Y.C. turned lethal earlier this 12 months after officers have been notified on Feb. 23 a couple of boat taking over water close to Breezy Level, a neighborhood on the tip of Queens’ Rockaway peninsula, the Coast Guard previously said. 5 folks have been recovered on the scene, and 4 died, the company reported.
In response to New York State Parks, all boats touring in New York waterways have to hold a U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jacket of the right dimension for every passenger onboard. Good security practices embody not overcrowding boats, carrying sound security units comparable to whistles and air horns and requiring all rowers to move a swimming take a look at.
