“He took social distancing too seriously.” So joked on Twitter the head of Special Operations of the New York Police, Harry J. Wedin, on the case of the 36-year-old man who was shipwrecked last Thursday in one of the islets of Jamaica Bay, south of Queens (New York, United States), after his kayak filled with water and sank, all in full confinement by the crisis of the coronavirus. The castaway, a high school teacher, according to US media, spent 12 hours lost without anyone passing near there.
With the help of sticks and branches that he found in the area, the man wrote the word “HELP” on the sand, a trick that served the police to locate the man, whom they saw when he was signaling from a helicopter. Video released by officers shows that when they landed on the remote island, the man came running towards them and raised his fists to his chest as if celebrating their rescue.
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