PATCHOGUE, Suffolk County (WABC) -- Officers rescued two boaters who drifted more than two miles from their capsized boat in the Patchogue River.
Authorities say 71-year-old Richard Laskowski and 58-year-old Donald Ward, Jr., of East Islip, were stranded in the water for more than an hour Tuesday.
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They both were wearing life vests and were blowing distress whistles.
The boaters were not injured.
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