A swimmer who got swept out to sea by a powerful current was rescued off New York's Long Island after treading water for five hours, police said.
, 63, went swimming at a beach in Babylon at about 5 a.m. Monday and was pulled out by the current, Suffolk County police said in a news release.
After treading water with no flotation device for five hours, Ho found a broken fishing pole and tied his shirt to it to try to flag down a passing boat, police said. Two men in a fishing boat spotted Ho about 2 1/2 miles south of where he had entered the water, police said.Hohorst said Tuesday that“He wasn’t looking good, couldn’t move his legs,” said Hohorst, a former New York City firefighter. “Hypothermia had set in big time, probably some dehydration. He said he drank a lot of salt water.”
Officers from the Suffolk department’s marine bureau took Ho to their boat and gave first aid, police said. They took him ashore U.S. Coast Guard’s Fire Island station, where he received further treatment before going to a local hospital.
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