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Officers rescue man from Sound
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Police Marine Unit officers on Sunday rescued a man clinging to a lobster pot in Long Island Sound. The man was described by Suffolk County Police Public Information Office as "semi-conscious" and one of the officers who effectuated the rescue said just after the incident the victim "only had a short time left."
"We got the call for an overturned canoe … at 15:36," said SCPD Marine Unit Officer Gary Salino, standing on the boat launch ramp at Port Jefferson Harbor just after 4 pm. Salino and his partner, Officer Joe Devlin, raced from Mount Sinai Harbor — where they were when the call came in — to the scene "just east of Flax Pond" in Old Field and several hundred feet offshore "in about six minutes," Salino said.
One man was on the beach, wet but otherwise okay, Salino said, when he and Devlin found Zura Doetza, 42, clinging to the lobster pot and in distress. Salino said Doletza, of Avenue H in Brooklyn, was "incoherent" and unable to grasp the rope thrown to him. The two SCPD marine officers managed to get the victim into the police boat and rushed him to the dock at Port Jefferson Harbor, where a waiting ambulance transported Doletza to Mather Hospital suffering from "severe hypothermia," according to the SCPD's Public Information Office.
The PIO reported Sunday evening that "Good Samaritan George Dididze, 37, of Shore Parkway, Brooklyn, was on shore when he noticed Doletza in distress and attempted to rescue Doletza but returned to the shore due to the cold water."
Monday Marine Unit Sergeant Ray Epp confirmed that Dididze, a friend of Doletza's, was on shore when he saw his friend in trouble, tried to reach him utilizing "an inflatable" but was unable to do so.
Dididze was cold after being in the 60-degree water but did not require treatment.
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