More than 20 young people suffered mild to moderate hypothermia, after their sculls capsized during bad weather on Wednesday.
WESTPORT, Conn. -- There is much relief but also many questions following a frightening incident on the Long Island Sound.More than 20 young people suffered mild to moderate hypothermia, after their rowing sculls capsized during bad weather on Wednesday night.Damage was clearly visible on two of the rowing sculls. Each was carrying nine teenage boys and the third scull is somewhere in the Sound.
'They headed right into the rough weather, which the CBS New York Weather Team forecasted on Wednesday afternoon.'The conditions got really rough and we rowed for maybe 100 meters before it, um, really picked up, and a lot of water came into our boat and we kind of realized that, like, we weren't really getting back,' rowing team member Davis Evans said.Two dozen people ended up in the 44-degree water.
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