{"id":26298,"date":"2025-11-03T00:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26298\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T00:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:24:17","slug":"long-island-kayakers-vanish-after-sending-selfie-to-gal-pal-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26298\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Island kayakers vanish after sending selfie to gal pal: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police on Long Island continue to search the waters near Shinnecock Bay for a pair of kayakers who disappeared Saturday evening after sending a selfie to a friend, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Southampton police said Shane Garcia, 27, and his 25-year-old pal, Aaron Montemarano, set out on a lime-green two-man ocean kayak near the Ponquogue Bridge and never returned, <a href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/southampton-police-search-for-2-missing-shinnecock-bay-kayakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">News12 reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.024;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37555188\" width=\"604\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/114676519.jpg\" alt=\"Shane Garcia (left) and Aaron Montemarano (right) kayaking in Shinnecock Bay.\" class=\"wp-image-37555188\"  \/>Police said Long Island kayakers Shane Garcia and Aaron Montemarano sent a selfie Saturday and then disappeared.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37555212\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/aerial-view-boat-entering-shinnecock-114676521.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of a boat entering Shinnecock Bay in New York.\" class=\"wp-image-37555212\"  \/>Southampton police said Shane Garcia and Aaron Montemarano disappeared while kayaking near Shinnecock Bay. iofoto \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Garcia sent a picture to his girlfriend of himself and his friend Aaron Montemarano while kayaking in Shinnecock Bay near Ponquogue Bridge,\u201d police said in a press release. \u201cA search of Shinnecock Bay and the surrounding area yielded negative results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Montemarano is believed to have been in the company of Mr. Garcia at the time he went missing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cops said Garcia\u2019s girlfriend reported the men missing when they didn\u2019t return home Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Police told The Post Sunday that the two were still missing and the search continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police on Long Island continue to search the waters near Shinnecock Bay for a pair of kayakers who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16702,776,57,7373,9,11,10,16703,16704,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-26298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-kayaking","9":"tag-long-island","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-missing-persons","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-search-and-rescue","16":"tag-southampton","17":"tag-the-hamptons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}