{"id":333208,"date":"2026-05-26T19:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333208\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:01:11","slug":"man-killed-in-barnegat-bay-boating-crash-nj-state-police-say-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333208\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in Barnegat Bay boating crash, NJ state police say \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man was killed in a boating accident that also injured five others at the Jersey Shore on Memorial Day.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Gunnar Pearson, 28, of Barnegat, New Jersey, was a passenger on a boat that struck a channel marker in Barnegat Bay off the Brant Beach section of Long Beach Township, New Jersey, around 5:45 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n

Pearson and another person were thrown into the water, according to investigators. Pearson later died from his injuries, New Jersey State Police announced on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The other person who fell in the water remains in critical condition while four others who were on the boat suffered minor injuries, according to investigators. <\/p>\n

Witnesses said the crash happened suddenly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just heard like a really loud bang from it, and we weren’t like positive like what was going on, but we saw people in the water,\u201d witness Ford Hansen said.<\/p>\n

Authorities said no other boats appear to have been involved in the crash.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said those on board struggled to rescue the people who had been thrown into the bay.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe boat kept going, and because they didn’t have time to turn around, and they were obviously shocked,\u201d witness Sean Stretch said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were out there for a solid, like 15 minutes, trying to pick them up, get them on the boat,\u201d Hansen said.<\/p>\n

The damaged boat was later brought to a marina in the Brant Beach section of Long Beach Township, where first responders treated the victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw this guy just laying down on the ground and receiving CPR,\u201d Hansen said. \u201cI’ve never seen something like that in my life, so it’s pretty, pretty traumatizing.”<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOfficials say six people have been hospitalized — two in critical condition — after a boat crashed off the shore of Long Beach, New Jersey. NBC10’s Brenna Weick has the latest details.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The crash remains under investigation. Authorities have not said what may have caused the boat to hit the channel marker.<\/p>\n

Michael Dolida, property manager of Brant Beach Yacht Club, said boating accidents can happen quickly.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re distracted for two seconds and life changes real quick,” Dolida said.<\/p>\n

At around 11 p.m. on Monday, the boat was extracted from the water by investigators. <\/p>\n

\u201cBoating accidents happen, just like car accidents happen\u2026 it\u2019s a shame, especially on a holiday,\u201d Dolida said.<\/p>\n

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This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC Philadelphia. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC Philadelphia journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed in a boating accident that also injured five others at the Jersey Shore on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2889,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-333208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-jersey-shore","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}