LI family: 'We lost three great kids' in boat tragedy

Originally published: July 5, 2012 6:12 AM
Updated: July 5, 2012 11:22 PM
By BART JONES, BILL BLEYER, KEVIN DEUTSCH, GARY DYMSKI, TANIA LOPEZ, JOSEPH MALLIA, KERY MURAKAMI lidesk@newsday.com

Police boats search for a capsized vessel about 1/4 mile west of Lloyd Neck in Cold Spring Harbor. Police say three children died after the cabin cruiser, returning from a fireworks display, capsized. (July 5, 2012) (July 5, 2012 2:44 PM)

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Investigators were Thursday trying to determine what led up to the moment when chaos erupted aboard a 34-foot cabin cruiser that capsized, spilling 27 people into the waters off Oyster Bay and killing three children.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Nassau police indicated Thursday that the main focus of their investigation was whether the boat was overcrowded at a time when vessels of all kinds were...

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