It happened at Beach 73rd and Rockaway Beach Sunday at 6 p.m.
A 14-year-old boy drowned in the Rockaways on Sunday.The boy's mother was there and witnessed people pulling her son from the water.
"I was there praying with the mom. I gave her my towel. My towel is still on the beach. As a mom, I don't play," said Sharon Grant. Lifeguards left the beach around 5:30 p.m. - then someone came yelling that someone was in the water. That is when Basia Lewandowski, an ex-lifeguard, jumped into action. She says the beach closed early because of thunder and lightning - and most of the lifeguards headed back up to their clubhouse. She grabbed a whistle, and her friend, a fellow lifeguard ran right into the waves.
"We do what we call a diving line. And so the lifeguards started diving. It was a miracle we found his body," said Lewandowski."It's a horror, an absolute horror to start a holiday and lose someone like that, but you can't swim when there's no lifeguards," said eyewitness Tim Moriarty.Police say he was pronounced dead at St. John's Hospital.
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