The Wizard
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They were friends of mine.....a sad day here on Long Island....
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Boat Accident on Long Island
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Slandrew
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Was it the1st low small Wantagh PKWY bridge Ozzie? I passed but the boat was gone there were still cops all over!
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Magic Medicine
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very sad!
The Wizard
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Was it the1st low small Wantagh PKWY bridge Ozzie? I passed but the boat was gone there were still cops all over!
not sure bro. rumors are flying all over....
Trim'd Up
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Spoke with a few people the media has the story all wrong!Makes it even more sad
Imagine that. The media has something wrong.
Thoughts and prayers to all involved.
The media has picked this up.
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/two-beacons-were-missing-near-fatal-boat-crash-1.1541137
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/two-beacons-were-missing-near-fatal-boat-crash-1.1541137
Beacons missing@nite did not helpJupiterSunsation
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This is the story in the link:
Two navigation markers were missing on the channel where a high-performance speedboat crashed south of Seaford earlier this month, killing three and injuring four.
But why boaters in the area were not officially informed is not yet clear.
While the Town of Hempstead was responsible for placing and maintaining those markers, the U.S Coast Guard was supposed to notify the boating community of changes.
>>VIDEO: Click here to see victims escorted to ambulances on the night of the accident.
According to a Coast Guard report prepared after the Oct. 4 crash, two "day beacons" - reflector signs mounted on poles - designed to guide mariners through the Great Island Channel were not where they were supposed to be on the day of the crash.
Ron Masters, the town's waterways commissioner, said his department removed the markers last winter and informed the Coast Guard in a memo hand-delivered to the Jones Beach Station in January. He could not provide the memo Thursday night.
If the Coast Guard was notified, it would be up to the agency to issue an alert through its weekly online Local Notice to Mariners publication. But the agency's notice that the markers had been removed appeared on Oct. 14.
A Coast Guard spokeswoman said she could not clarify the situation Thursday night.
Earlier this week, police said boat owner George Canni, 65, of Copiague, was legally drunk at the time of the accident, with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent.
But attorney James Mercante of Manhattan, representing the estate of Canni and his wife, who were both fatally injured, contends the missing navigation aids caused the 7:15 p.m. accident.
"The next set of red and green buoys [markers] that he would be looking for were missing, yet they were identified on the nautical chart as being in position," said Mercante, who obtained the Coast Guard report on the status of navigation aids. "To someone operating a vessel in a narrow, confined channel at night who would be relying on buoys, not having the buoys there that should have been there would have caused the operator to stray from the channel without knowing it."
Although the two markers were gone, a third one remains on the west side of the channel, and it is closer to where the accident happened - and closer to the turn Canni needed to make to avoid hitting Goose Island.
Larry Weiss, spokesman for U.S. Power Squadrons on Long Island, a boating safety group, downplayed the importance of the buoys. "A prudent skipper, upon not seeing expected navigation aids, should slow to an appropriate speed, or even stop, until the correct position and course can be ascertained," he said.
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