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Body Found Off LI Sound Is Missing Brooklyn Resident

2010_07_sail.jpg A man's body washed ashore on Huckleberry Island in the Long Island Sound on Saturday and his relatives identified it as Brooklyn resident Eoin Curran, 30. Curran had been taking a sailing class on the sound on Saturday, July 25 when a squall hit and he and the instructor were knocked into the water; he was not wearing a life jacket. A harbor master told Patch, "The rain was coming down so hard you could barely see a person standing next to you... A squall like that will lay the boat over on its side, to the point where you're taking water in the cockpit." Curran, originally from Ireland, was a programmer for Google.

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  • Rocknrope

    Whatever happened to that Brooklyn woman who disappeared from Park Slope, the blonde one. They ever find her?

  • r1b2

    He was with an instructor but not required to wear a life jacket?

  • schadenfreudian mensch

    "The law requires that the boat carry life jackets for every passenger, but not that the passengers wear them."

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