Nearly 30 members of a Connecticut rowing club were rescued on Wednesday after their boats capsized.
WESTPORT, Conn. -- Nearly 30 members of a Connecticut rowing club, including over two dozen high schoolers, were rescued from the Long Island Sound on Wednesday after their boats capsized.Police say just before 5 p.m., three rowing sculls and one chase boat launched from Saugatuck Rowing Club in Westport. Each rowing scull carried nine rowers, all males between the ages of 14-18, and the chase boat was operated by at least one coach.
According to police, the temperature of the water was approximately 44 degrees at the time.'Responding units found a chaotic scene of youths swimming to shore. Some of them were arriving by boat. Some were swimming. Some were still in the water between Compo Beach and Cockenoe Island,' Westport Police Chief Foti Koskinas said. 'First responders immediately began providing care to those individuals who were on shore and coordinating the recovery of people in the water.
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