Two swimmers drowned in separate incidents at Rockaway Beach Friday evening, according to police, a week to the day after two teens died after they fell into the water at a nearby bay
. The two were pulled into the rough currents, which a nearby sign warns of along with sudden drop-offs, and their bodies were later found in the water. Those who frequent the beach say that not many people swim there, and it's more popular with fishermen and kite surfers.
All have been part a frightening and alarming trend of deadly drownings throughout the tri-state area in this early part of summer. More than a dozen people have drowned in New York and New Jersey since early June alone, a jolting and tragic reminder of potential summer dangers made that much more alarming by a national lifeguard shortage that is stoking fresh safety concerns.
A 17-year-old and a 20-year-old disappeared in a popular Morris County lake known as Mine Hill Beach on Green Road late Tuesday afternoon. Cops were told the two males went in the water at the sand pits and never resurfaced. Tangled vegetation within the New Jersey lake complicated the search effort.One body was recovered hours into the search. The other was found a short time later.
Hours earlier on that day she vanished, police said a man thought to be in his 20s drowned in Belmar, where a group of distressed swimmers was reported by the Eighth Avenue beach jetty area.event. Three lifeguards were on duty at the time, but officials say 19-year-old Chu Ming Zheng and 16-year-old Jack Jiang, were in a separate pool in the same building, not the ones lifeguards were watching.
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