Rip Current — Southeast Suffolk, New York
August 1, 2015 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
On Saturday, August 1, a 23-year-old Brooklyn man drowned off the waters of Westhampton Beach. Westhampton Beach Village Police received a call about 1:40 p.m. reporting a man who was struggling to leave the waters off Rogers Beach.||Four village lifeguards pulled the man from the water onto shore, where he went into cardiac arrest. The lifeguards performed CPR on the man, and police later arrived and used an automatic external defibrillator. The man was taken by Westhampton Beach Ambulance to Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, where he was pronounced dead. Officials withheld the man's identity pending notification of relatives.
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.