Teen boy drowns and five others rescued at beach over Memorial Day weekend
Sandy Hook Beach, where a 16-year-old boy drowned, does not have lifeguard.
A teenage boy drowned and five others were pulled from the water over Memorial Day weekend at a beach in New Jersey.
Meanwhile, four great white sharks were detected swimming off the coast of the New York and New Jersey beaches area leading up to the holiday weekend. The death and rescues were not related to the shark sightings.
A 15-year-old boy drowned while swimming at Sandy Hook Beach in New Jersey just after 4pm on Sunday, ABC News reported. His mother could be heard screaming that she could not see him above the water at the beach that did not have lifeguards.
‘People jumped in the water’ to help various swimmers ‘and then there was one missing that they couldn’t get’, witness Luis Sanchez told the news outlet.
‘They pulled him out, they started giving him CPR, and they couldn’t get (revive him), Sanchez said.
Four of the survivors were transported to Monmouth Medical Center and Jersey Shore University Medical Center, according to the Asbury Park Press. The fifth survivor refused medical attention. Their conditions were not immediately known.
The incidents occurred at Beach B within the National Recreation Area in Monmouth County.
New Jersey and New York waters were the site of four great white shark sightings in the weeks prior to Memorial Day weekend. The nonprofit marine research group OCEARCH recorded the male predators using electronic trackers that are set off when a shark breaches the surface of the ocean.
They include 9-foot-long Simon who was tracked off the coast of Fire Island in New York on May 2. Jekyll, which measures 8-feet-8-inches, was pinged near Long Island on May 15, while Keji measure more than 9 1/2-feet-long was detected in the same area two days later. Frosty, measuring 9-feet-2-inches, was detected off the coast of Rhode Island.
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