NYPD highlights water security and rescue ideas at Rockaway Seashore, Queens amid seek for lacking man
FAR ROCKAWAY, Queens (WABC) — As the warmth ramps up and folks flock to the seashores to chill off, the NYPD needs to remind households keep secure within the water.
Officers held an training session on seaside security and water rescue consciousness on Monday.
Santiago Reynoso, 17, discovered what it is wish to be a member of the NYPD’s Scuba group – a specialised unit that conducts search and rescue operations in New York Metropolis’s waterways.
“It was really a number of enjoyable, even identical to watching them do the issues and particularly holding what they’d, as a result of…it is heavy, surprisingly,” Reynoso mentioned.
The demonstration is necessary notably after this previous Friday when a 22-year-old man was reported lacking within the water close to Seashore twentieth Road. Police items on the bottom, the water and the sky looked for him all weekend.
And every week earlier, an unidentified man’s physique was discovered floating close to Seashore 97th Road.
“We do not wish to come right here, we do not wish to be an ever presence, current presence right here, we do not wish to be an usually presence right here,” mentioned Det. Robert A. Rodriguez with the NYPD Scuba group. “More often than not, we’re diving for proof, however our bodies are a part of our repertoire. So, yeah, we do not wish to do that too usually.”
A couple of dozen youngsters from completely different NYPD summer season applications attended the demonstration the place officers defined how necessary it’s to learn indicators on the seaside, swim close to lifeguards, ask questions and study what to do when there is a rip present.
A few of the youngsters had by no means even heard of a rip present. And Lesly Yepez says she would not actually know swim, however does like to chill off within the ocean.
“Lots of people do not take water security significantly, I used to be considered one of them earlier than coming right here,” Yepez mentioned.
For Det. Tanya Duhaney of NYPD Neighborhood Affairs, she’s glad the youngsters felt engaged within the lesson, however hopes it is also a reminder that water security must be launched earlier.
“Principally it is the youngsters that come out right here after hours, there is not any lifeguard, and people are those that tragically typically lose their lives,” Duhaney mentioned. “And we do not need that.”
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