2 Drowned at Long Beach

Friday, my two brothers and a bunch of their friends went to Long Beach, the weather was great, they played volleyball, football and just relaxed, a bunch of teenagers off from school, just having a good time at the beach. The lifeguards went off duty around 6pm and being unfamiliar with Long Beach tides, they decided to just dip their feet in the water, while their best friend- a great swimmer, went a little further in. In a split of a second he was gone. A 'riptide' what they call it, a wave, took him so far out. He was no where to be seen, until they saw him stick his hand out. His cousin went to go save him. At the end 10 minutes later they got his cousin, and tried to save him, but it was too late.

The other friend is still missing. The family is devastated, his parents cant find closure, cant have a proper funeral....please pray that his body is found. We were very good family friends with both families, so in essence Two Sisters (the childrens mother) lost both their sons on one day...

i am so sorry

I'm so sorry.

Oh my, I read about this, I am so sorry for the boys and their families. My prayers go out to them.

for the families

This is so incredibly tragic. I am soooo sorry

I'm so sorry. It is so terribly sad

I'm so sorry....

omg i am so sorry i heard it on the radio this morning

oh my God! i read about this in the news I am so sorry for your families!!! i will that they find him

I live in LB and the tides were stronger than usual. I am so sorry for your loss! I know they were looking for them all day saturday. My prayers go out to their families and I hope they are able to find the other person.

My prayers are with this family. I live on Lido beach very close to Long Beach and I heard the news and was very sad, I always worry as my daughter gets older of things like that. These mothers must be going throught the most awful time of their lives ad you can only hope and pray that this family gets the strenght to deal with this duble tragedy.

wow... i heard about this story... how awful =(

This is so sad

so sorry to hear this.. my thoughts and prayers go out to their families..

OMG yeah i heard about this on the news this morning... there were other tragedies in queens and other parts of LI!

i'm so sorry to hear that it effected your life first hand!!!

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Posted by luvabul

Friday, my two brothers and a bunch of their friends went to Long Beach, the weather was great, they played volleyball, football and just relaxed, a bunch of teenagers off from school, just having a good time at the beach. The lifeguards went off duty around 6pm and being unfamiliar with Long Beach tides, they decided to just dip their feet in the water, while their best friend- a great swimmer, went a little further in. In a split of a second he was gone. A 'riptide' what they call it, a wave, took him so far out. He was no where to be seen, until they saw him stick his hand out. His cousin went to go save him. At the end 10 minutes later they got his cousin, and tried to save him, but it was too late.

The other friend is still missing. The family is devastated, his parents cant find closure, cant have a proper funeral....please pray that his body is found. We were very good family friends with both families, so in essence Two Sisters (the childrens mother) lost both their sons on one day...

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Is this them? Again I'm so sorry. This is so sad.

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