While there are lifeguards at some beaches in Sandy Hook, the area where the drowning took place was unguarded and there was no swimming allowed.
"I saw them floating down. They were drifting. I didn't know there was trouble until they got over here," said Marie Macera."People jumped in the water, took three of them out. And then there was one missing that they couldn't get," said Luis Sanchez.
"They all made a line with their hands to try to extend to get this kid to pull him out - but he had to be there a long time," Macera said.Five people were taken to hospitals, but the teen could not be revived, and was pronounced dead. "They were all up and down the shore, because people don't listen and the rip current is so bad," said Deborah.
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