New York City police SCUBA divers saved a woman trapped inside a capsized 30-foot fishing boat near Execution Rocks on western Long Island Sound on Sunday evening. She had found a small air pocket inside the boat and was able to keep breathing until the two divers were lowered from a police helicopter and saved her.
Rescue boats pulled the other five people who had been on the boat from the water. But one of them screamed that his wife was still inside. Only the bow of the boat was above water at the time.
NYPD Detective Brian Mullen, one of the divers, said he saw the woman’s foot tangled behind cushions and fishing gear when he swam under the boat. “I grab the foot and the foot moved,” he told CBS New York. “I’m like, that’s a good sign.”
Mullen was able to free the woman and push her through a sunroof hatch, where his partner pulled her to the surface. All six people were taken to a Long Island hospital where they were treated and released. Authorities did not know why the boat capsized.
