A 63-year-old New York man treaded water for five hours and made a makeshift flag using his shirt and a broken fishing pole before being rescued in the Atlantic Ocean this week, authorities say.
man treaded water for five hours and made a makeshift flag using his shirt and a broken fishing pole before being rescued in the Atlantic Ocean this week, authorities say.
Dan Ho was found two and a half miles off Cedar Beach in Babylon on Long Island Monday, according to the Suffolk County Police Department. Police say the Copiague man went swimming around 5 a.m. yesterday when he was "pulled out by the current into open water." "After treading water with no flotation for approximately five hours, Ho found a broken fishing pole in the water, tied his shirt to it and waved the shirt in the air in an attempt to notify passing vessels of his presence,"The effort paid off as investigators said Ho was spotted by Jim Hohorst of West Islip and Michael Ross of Syosset.
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