A Rhode Island-bound lobster fisherman died early Monday morning despite
being brought to shore by a crew from U.S. Coast Guard Station
Shinnecock and rushed to Southampton Hospital.
Crew members on
the 57-foot-long Lady Clare of South Kingstown called Coast Guard Sector
Long Island Sound at about 9 p.m. Sunday and reported that a crewman
was having difficulty breathing, Coast Guard spokeswoman Jetta Disco
said Tuesday morning. The Port Judith-bound vessel was 31 nautical miles
south of the Shinnecock Inlet at the time, Ms. Disco said, and was told
to head north to meet a Shinnecock crew that was en route.
The
two vessels met, and the Coast Guard transported the man, whom officials
have not identified, to the marina at Oakland’s Restaurant, where an
ambulance was waiting to take him to Southampton Hospital. He was
pronounced dead at the hospital.
Ms. Disco did not release the man’s name, age or hometown, and said the Coast Guard would not disclose the cause of death.
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