3 Adrift On Float Off Robins Island Rescued

NORTH FORK, NY — Three sisters on an adrift float in Great Peconic Bay were rescued Sunday, police said.

The sisters floated were tied to a boat driven by their sister, Denise Tripoldi, 51, of Brookhaven, near Robins Island when another float became loose and Tripoldi untied her sisters' float to retrieve the other one, Southold Town Police said. When Tripoldi got back, she could not find the women or float, police said.

After 15 minutes, she contacted Southold police and the bay constable and a police officer responded; in addition, two Southampton bay constable vessels along with the U.S. Coast Guard, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Cutchogue Fire Department and the Suffolk County Police Department's aviation unit conducted a search of the Great Peconic Bay, police said.

A boater encountered the three sisters on the float near Kimogener Point, picked them up and returned them to their boat, police said. The sisters, ages 47, 57, and 20 from Brookhaven and East Patchogue, were uninjured.