Swimmer useless, boater lacking off New England coast after Hurricane Erin – NBC Boston

Hurricane Erin by no means made landfall however left behind tough ocean circumstances alongside the U.S. East Coast. At least two individuals died after that they had been swimming within the heavy present, and a search continued Monday for a person who was lacking after his boat capsized.

Beaches had been starting to reopen Friday after Erin, twice the dimensions of a median hurricane, had weakened right into a post-tropical cyclone removed from land, however was nonetheless able to inflicting life-threatening surf and rip currents, the National Hurricane Center in Miami had mentioned. Erin’s outer bands had already brushed North Carolina. It brought about no widespread injury.

In Massachusetts, a crew of police and U.S. Coast Guard members had been resuming their search Monday for a person in his 50s who was lacking after a ship capsized off of Salisbury Beach on Saturday. The different individual within the boat was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening accidents.

As the search enters its third day, there may be nonetheless no signal of a person misplaced at sea.

Despite difficult climate and sea circumstances together with 6- to 8-foot swells, the crew carried out sonar scans, dives, floor and aerial patrols on Sunday, the state police mentioned in a information launch. In Maine, a person was rescued Saturday after his sailboat capsized in excessive surf in York Harbor.

In New Hampshire, authorities are investigating the dying of a 17-year-old boy who had been swimming with members of the family off of Hampton Beach on Sunday evening.

Witnesses mentioned he was pulled away by a robust ocean present and his father unsuccessfully tried to rescue him. Lifeguards introduced each to shore and started livesaving efforts on the teenager, who was later pronounced useless at a hospital. The father was handled there.

A person drowned Saturday after being caught in a robust rip present off the New York coast, at Sailors Haven within the Fire Island National Seashore in Suffolk County, authorities mentioned. Ishmoile Mohammed, 59, was visiting from South Carolina.

Massachusetts State Police mentioned all rescue and restoration efforts had been paused as of seven:20 p.m. because of hostile climate circumstances at Salisbury Beach.

Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Juliette fashioned Monday within the Pacific Ocean a whole lot of miles from Mexico’s Baja California peninsula as Tropical Storm Fernand churned within the Atlantic Ocean.

No coastal watches or warnings had been in impact for both storm, the hurricane middle mentioned.

Juliette posed no speedy risk to land, forecasters mentioned. The storm was about 450 miles (724 kilometers) south-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. It had most sustained winds close to 45 mph.

It was shifting west-northwest at 13 mph. Some strengthening was forecast by Tuesday, with weakening beginning Wednesday.

In the Atlantic basin, Fernand fashioned Saturday however was additionally removed from land and forecast to stay over open ocean waters. It was about 425 miles east-northeast of Bermuda with most sustained winds of 60 mph and heading north-northeast at 13 mph.

The storm was anticipated to show extra to the northeast because it strikes away from Bermuda and weaken beginning Monday evening.