{"id":358413,"date":"2026-09-27T23:36:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T23:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358413\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T23:36:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T23:36:45","slug":"news-12-bronx-man-rescued-after-kayak-swamped-waders-filled-with-water-in-great-south-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358413\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Man Rescued After Kayak Swamped Waders Filled With Water In Great South Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A kayaker had to be rescued after being dragged underwater in Suffolk County Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Suffolk Marine Bureau officers Christopher Maggio, Thomas Ciota, Kyle Profit and Brendan Grogan responded after receiving a 911 call around 11 a.m. reporting a boater was in distress.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Shirley man\u2019s watercraft had become swamped and then his waders filled with water in the Great South Bay, about a quarter of a mile from Sore Thumb Beach.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police tell News 12 their officers waded through knee-deep water to get to the kayaker, who was already on the sandbar after being assisted by good Samaritans.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The 68-year-old, who had been out clamming when the incident occurred, was semiconscious when he was strapped to a backboard to be removed from the water and transported to land via Marine Juliet.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He was then taken to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore for treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A kayaker had to be rescued after being dragged underwater in Suffolk County Wednesday morning. Suffolk Marine Bureau&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-358413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358413","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=358413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}