Rip Current — Ocean, New Jersey

2005-09-07 to 2005-09-08 · near Pt Pleasant, Ocean, New Jersey

Wider weather episode

Rip currents caused by swells from Hurricanes Maria and Nate claimed the life of one man and seriously injured a 62-year-old woman. The 28-year-old male construction worker drowned off Ocean Bay Boulevard in Dover Township's Ocean Beach Shores section on September 8th. He was one of four members of a construction crew that entered the unguarded stretch of ocean after working on an oceanfront home. Three of the men escaped the rip current and reached the beach with the assistance from onlookers. The fourth male was swept away. He was pulled from the water about 245 p.m. EDT on the 8th and never regained consciousness. The previous day, a 62-year-old woman in Seaside Park nearly drowned after being swept away by a rip current. She was seriously injured, but was expected to survive.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5474156. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.