Positivity: Six Rescued after Stranded in Boat Overnight
4:02 PM EDT, August 8, 2007
Six young men who set out from Montauk for a two-hour excursion in a rented boat said prayer sustained them through the night after they got lost in heavy fog.
Their ordeal ended when a patrol craft from Coast Guard Station Montauk located the 18-foot Sea Fox bowrider-style boat at 6 a.m., 2 miles northeast of Gardiners Island and about 8 miles from their starting point.
“There was a lot of prayer involved,” said Alex Levine, 23, a Brooklyn rabbinical college student and tutor. “We huddled together because it was cold and damp.”
The six — Levine, Aharon Lev Goodman, Levi Kirshenbaum, Mordchai Chazen, Mendy Ben-Shachar and Mendy Stalvitsk, who are from Brooklyn and Israel and are in their early to mid 20s — rented the boat from Uihlein’s Marina on Lake Montauk. They left a brief outline of their boating plans with a rabbi who had organized the outing, Leib Baumgarten, director of Lubavitch of the Hamptons, and with the marina.
Marina owner Henry Uihlein said the men left at 3:50 p.m. on Tuesday When the fog rolled in around 4:40 p.m. and three of the marina’s boats were still out, he said his staff went out and found two of the boats nearby. But they couldn’t locate the third because it had gone too far offshore.
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