May 21, 2008
Crew team rescued in Lloyd Harbor
William Rusinski, a bayman, in his Commack home. He rescued members of the St. Anthony's crew team who fell into the water in Lloyd Harbor. (Newsday Photo / Daniel Goodrich)
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A bayman helped rescue about a dozen students on the St. Anthony's High School crew team who capsized in the choppy waters of Lloyd Harbor, police said Saturday.
About 10 a.m. Friday, Lloyd Harbor police received a call that a scull and a chase boat had capsized in the harbor, and the crew members and their coach were clinging to the boats, Officer Joseph Donnaruma said.
By the time police responded, bayman William Rusinski, 50, of Commack, had pulled the students and their coach aboard his motorboat.
A second chase boat came to take some of the students off Rusinski's boat, itself in danger of sinking with so many people aboard, he said.
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"Any time there's a northeasterly wind, it gets choppy" in the harbor, Rusinski said. "I thought I was going to go down, too."
Rusinski brought the students ashore at Coindre Hall. All of the students were taken to Huntington Hospital, where they were treated and released, police said.
"Everybody was OK," Donnaruma said.
Messages left Saturday for St. Anthony's officials were not returned.
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