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Four swimmers were saved from a rip current at Seaside Park on Tuesday afternoon thanks to a vigilant lifeguard from Seaside Heights who saw the swimmers from his position six blocks away.
Hugh "Jay" Boyd, chief of the Seaside Heights Beach Patrol, said that the rescue took place on the Stockton Avenue beach in Seaside Park at around 4:30 p.m.
Nick Tomasiello, one of the guards, was using binoculars to check the area from the stand at Hamilton Avenue in Seaside Heights when he spotted the swimmers in trouble. Beach Patrol's Instagram page sent a message from Beach Capt. Rob Connor.
Boyd claimed that Connor, Tomasiello, and Mickey Holland, another lifeguard, took a 4-wheel-drive truck down the beach to Stockton Avenue, where a surfer known as Kenny Mac was giving the four swimmers assistance on a surfboard.
According to Connor, "The 4 victims were in serious trouble." According to Boyd, Kenny Mac is the owner of the Playa Bowls location on the boardwalk in Seaside Park.
Boyd reported that Holland and Tomasiello went into the water to assist, and Connor used a rescue rope to help pull them back onto the sand.
Boyd claimed that Tri-Boro First Aid had been called to treat a single patient who "had taken in a lot of water," but he was unable to confirm whether the patient had been transferred to a hospital.
Boyd remarked, "I had to send my guards back to watch our beach."
Seaside Heights will have lifeguards on the beach daily through Sunday, then weekends through the rest of September.
