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Boat Explosion: East Setauket Woman Seriously Injured At Smithtown Bay In Stony Brook
Two people were injured, one seriously, in a boat explosion on Long Island.
It happened Saturday, Aug. 5 at about 6 p.m. in Stony Brook.
A 54-year-old East Setauket man was operating his boat, a 2003 Sea Ray Sundancer, in Smithtown Bay, traveling from Sunken Meadow State Park to Stony Brook Marina, when it stalled, Suffolk County Police said.
An explosion occurred on the boat a short time after it was restarted.
A 53-year-old woman, the wife of the boat operator, and a passenger on the boat, was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital for the treatme…
