{"id":317059,"date":"2026-08-09T03:54:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317059\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T03:54:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:54:39","slug":"crews-responding-after-vessel-overturns-off-liberty-island-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317059\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews responding after vessel overturns off Liberty Island, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByEyewitness News  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/origin-wabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, August 9, 2026 3:37AM<\/p>\n<p>Stream New York&#8217;s #1 news &#8211; AccuWeather &#8211; original content 24\/7<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK (WABC) &#8212; Crews responded to the scene after a vessel overturned off Liberty Island, police sources say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Calls started coming in just before 10:30 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">FDNY Units, Harbor, Scuba and Aviation units all responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sources say there were around a dozen people on the vessel when it overturned and multiple people were rescued before police arrived. NYPD divers entered the water and found two victims, believed to be a woman and a child. Both were taken to the hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByEyewitness News Sunday, August 9, 2026 3:37AM Stream New York&#8217;s #1 news &#8211; AccuWeather &#8211; original content 24\/7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[119515,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-317059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-119515","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317059","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=317059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}