Riverhead Police Utilize Drone to Locate Boat Adrift in Riverhead with 5 Stranded Passengers

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All passengers were unharmed, and the vessel was towed back to port.

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Peconic Bay in Riverhead.

According to the Riverhead Police Department, dispatchers received a 911 call on Tuesday, May 7 at approximately 10 p.m. regarding a 17-foot boat adrift without power in Peconic Bay in Riverhead.
 
There were five passengers stranded on the boat at the time, police say, who proceeded to utilize a drone to search Peconic Bay until the vessel in question - and it's passengers - was located. At that time, police dispatched a Dive Team to the boat's location to rescue the passengers.
 
All passengers were unharmed, police say, and the vessel was towed back to port.