Rip Current — Southeast Suffolk, New York
June 24, 2016 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
Tom Surdyke, 18, from Missouri died on Tuesday night June 28, after fighting for his life at Stony Brook Hospital. The West Point cadet was pulled, unresponsive, from the ocean at Coopers Beach in Southampton Village on Friday afternoon June 24th. Mr. Surdyke was a cadet at West Point military academy.||According to a female eyewitness, Mr. Surdyke and another individual got caught in a rip current. She said the two men were on a sandbar when one screamed for help, as he held Mr. Surdyke up out of the water. The eyewitness said no lifeguards were on duty. Someone finally ran up the beach to a man with a paddle board, she said, who went out to the two men. Both were pulled out of the water, although Mr. Surdyke was unresponsive. When they finally got Mr. Surdyke to shore, about five peopl
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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.