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Owner Missing After Boat Washes Up With No One On Board At Smith Point Beach Owner Missing After Boat Washes Up With No One On Board At Smith Point Beach
Owner Missing After Boat Washes Up With No One On Board At Smith Point Beach Authorities are searching for the owner of a 25-foot pleasure boat that washed ashore on Long Island. US Coast Guard Petty Officer Ryan Schultz said the boat washed ashore around 8:15 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 30, on the ocean side of Smith Point Beach.  There was no one aboard at the time it was found, but all of the electronic equipment was "energized" and working, Schultz said.  The Coast Guard was alerted by the Suffolk County Police who took part in a massive search for the owner that included boats and aircraft on Monday, Oct. 31. Schultz said the owner of the boat was confirmed …

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by Kathy Reakes
News
Humpback Whale Makes Big City Splash In NY Harbor Humpback Whale Makes Big City Splash In NY Harbor
Humpback Whale Makes Big City Splash In NY Harbor A humpback whale made quite a splash with a group of fisherman in New York City, making a surprise appearance off the coast of Staten Island. The whale was spotted by Alex Carr and several of his co-workers from the Staten Island Zoo who were celebrating a friend’s birthday out on Raritan Bay. The large whale was approximately 100 feet from the boat at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 17 when Carr and his buddies managed to snap several photos. The whale hung around in the water for longer than a half-hour as the bemused fishermen watched it. This is the second sighting of a whale in New York…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
ID Released For Shirley Woman Killed When Boat Is Struck By 50-Foot Sea Ray ID Released For Shirley Woman Killed When Boat Is Struck By 50-Foot Sea Ray
ID Released For Shirley Woman Killed When Boat Is Struck By 50-Foot Sea Ray Both women killed in separate boat crashes on Long Island on Sunday, July 14 has been identified. The most recent crash happened around 6:30 p.m. east of Moriches Inlet, when a 50-foot Sea Ray with three people aboard was traveling westbound a quarter mile off Cupsogue Beach at Cupsogue Beach County Park when it struck a drifting boat broadside with a married couple aboard, Suffolk County Police said. Mi Hua Hsu, 56, of Shirley, has been identified as the woman killed in the crash. Hsu and her husband, Jack Chin, were on a boat, drifting just east of the Moriches Inlet, when their ve…

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by Joe Lombardi
Lifestyle
Videos: Watch These Separate Whale Sightings Off Long Island Coast Videos: Watch These Separate Whale Sightings Off Long Island Coast
Videos: Watch These Separate Whale Sightings Off Long Island Coast Call them Ishmael? Whales were caught on camera near the South Shore of Long Island, dining off the eels and floating about approximately a half mile off the coast in the Moriches Inlet. According to the man who shot the video that has since gone viral on social media - there were approximately a dozen whales in the area at the time. A second video captured by a different boater, found whales near a boat in the Shinnecock Inlet, approximately 30 miles off the coast. In Shinnecock, the boaters reportedly were tuna fishing around noon on Monday when they spotted the whales. They observed th…

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by Zak Failla