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jakeXT

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Sat Jun 11, 2016, 03:31 PM Jun 2016

Man out to see sunrise drifts miles away on piece of plywood [View all]

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — A man getting ready to watch the sunrise on a piece of plywood in a marina was swept out by the Hudson River current and wound up about 2 nautical miles away near Governors Island.

The man was sent drifting into the river on an 8-foot-long piece of plywood on Thursday around 4:45 a.m., a little more than half an hour before the sun came up, Fire Department of New York Capt. Louis Guzzo said.

"At first, we just thought it was debris," Guzzo said. "You wouldn't put this thing on a lake much less New York Harbor."

The man told rescuers from fire department marine units that he went out to the dock at the Newport Yacht Club and Marina in Jersey City to watch the sun come up.

http://bigstory.ap.org/a1fb20df1b7a483ab1497890773de942

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