Two commercial fishermen helped rescue a New York City man who drifted overnight from the waters off a Queens neighborhood toward the New Jersey shoreline in Monmouth County, police said. The 34-year-old man was brought into the boat by the fishermen, a father and son, and taken to the Monmouth Cove Marina around 9 a.m. Monday, Middletown Township police said.
Township Deputy Police Chief Paul Bailey told NJ Advance Media the man entered the water in Breezy Point, a section of Queens, around 11 p.m. Sunday and was caught in the outgoing tide. He was about 2 miles off the New Jersey coastline when he was rescued.
Breezy Point and the marina are about 5 miles across the water from each other, spanning three bays, Lower, Raritan and Sandy Hook, Bailey said. The waters are busy with shipping traffic coming from the New York and New Jersey ports, he said. “It’s unbelievably remarkable,” Bailey said.
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