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Captain of Capsized Boat in N.Y. Blames Wave

A yacht that capsized on the Fourth of July, tossing 27 passengers, including three children who died, into the waters off New York's Long Island was hit by a wave, the boat's captain said today. "We're coming home and a wave got us and it turned the boat around," Sal Aureliano, the boat's operator, whose nephew was one of the children killed, told News 12 Long Island. "It just turned the boat and everyone was in the water and chaos." The Candi I, a 34-foot Silverton vessel, had been out on...Full Story
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