A 63-year-old man treaded water for hours and created a makeshift flag before being rescued off the coast of Long Island on Monday, police say.
"He was just treading water, praying some boat would come by," Ross told WABC."I can tell you, no boats in the area, not for miles."
"He was blue, [his] body gray," Ross added."He was shaking, totally hyperthermic. [We] wrapped him in towels." Ho told the local station that he and Hohorst were in the area where Ho was found because they were fishing for striped bass.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPHohorst, whom Newsday identified as a former New York City Fire Department Marine Bureau officer, described Ho as being"in shock and pretty incoherent at the time."
"We figured he had maybe an hour left," he told the newspaper."He was very hypothermic and said he had been drinking a lot of salt water." Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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