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$100K+ Raised For PA Dad Of 3 Killed In Sportfishing Boat Accident After Launching In NJ
A Pennsylvania father died and a New Jersey man was hospitalized after their 50-foot sportfishing boat capsized midday Saturday, Oct. 18, according to the NC Wildlife Resources Commission.
Francis “Frank” Hennigan Jr., 50, of Glenmoore, and Taylor Flannery, 29, Point Pleasant, were transporting the Moonstruck, a Winter Custom Yachts vessel, from Cape May, New Jersey to Florida when they stopped in Beaufort, North Carolina for propeller repairs, Lieutenant John Beardsley said in a Saturday evening release.
While navigating Oregon Inlet around 12:30 p.m., on Saturday the boat capsized while …
Montco's Sean Hagerty, 26, Killed In Schuylkill River Boating Accident
Montgomery County is mourning the loss of Sean Hagerty, a 26-year-old area resident who was killed in a boating accident on Sunday, June 1, his obituary says.
WFMZ says Sean's body was recovered the following day and later officially identified by the Montgomery County Coroner.
According to 6abc, Sean and another boater got caught in drainage pipes under the Keim Street Bridge in Pottstown. While one boater got out, Hagerty did not, the outlet said.
Sean, of Dresher, "life with energy, heart, and an unmistakable spark," his obituary on the Urban Funeral Home website says. A gradu…
Body Recovered Of Quarryville Boater Missing In Susquehanna River: Official
The body of a 39-year-old dad who went missing after a boating accident on the Susquehanna River on Thursday night, Aug. 15, was found on Saturday afternoon, Aug. 17, officials announced.
Brian Pierce, 39, of Quarryville, was boating with two friends near the Muddy Creek boat launch in Drumore Township when the boat malfunctioned, drifted, and struck a rock bed, Pennsylvania state Police Lancaster Trooper Schatzmann detailed in the release.
Pierce attempted to swim back to the shore, but midway back he "experienced difficulty" and witnesses lost sight of him, Schatzmann wrote in…
Bucks County Native, 18, Dies In Boating Accident
State police are investigating after a Bucks County teen and recent high school graduate was killed in a boating accident in Wayne County.
Dominic Testani, 18, of Doylestown, was found more than seven hours after the accident was reported in Lake Township early Saturday, March 18, troopers at the Honesdale barracks said in a statement.
First responders were called to East Island Lane near Lake Henry in Lake Township at about 1:50 a.m., officials said.
On arrival, troopers were told that three people were on the water in a rowboat when the vessel capsized, according …
PA Lifeguard, 16, Dies After Jersey Shore Boating Accident
A 16-year-old lifeguard from Pennsylvania died after a boating accident on the Jersey Shore.
Norman V. Inferrera III, of Phoenixville, PA, was rowing a lifeguard boat in the ocean when the vessel was broadsided by a wave and flipped over on the Reading Avenue Beach in Cape May Aug. 19, police said.
Norman was knocked unconscious and other lifeguards responded immediately to his aid, police said.
The teen was flown to the hospital, where he died on Friday night, a relative told Daily Voice.
More than $97,300 had been raised for his family on a GoFundMe as of Saturday morning.
“My heart, p…
