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A missing Long Island swimmer who disappeared into towering waves churned by a deadly nor’easter is alive and well, state police revealed Sunday.
The still-unidentified man contacted authorities after learning he was the subject of a search off Robert Moses State Park, according to a joint statement from New York State Police and New York State Park Police.
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“The individual was located alive and well, and no further assistance from the public is needed at this time,” the statement reads.
The swimmer sparked fears Saturday when he was spotted jumping — and apparently vanishing — into 18-foot waves near Field 3 on Fire Island’s western tip.
Concerned state police officials sent out a call for the public’s help tracking down the swimmer as they conducted a search amid 60-mph wind gusts and 25-foot sea swells until darkness fell.
The revelation that the man was alive and safe leaves the nor’easter’s death toll at one – a 56-year-old NYCHA worker, Leighton Brown.
Brown was killed Saturday when he was struck by a wind-buffeted falling tree near Brooklyn’s Cypress Hills Houses.
The victim suffered “trauma throughout his body” during the tragedy near 700 Euclid Ave. in East New York around 3:30 p.m., a police spokesman told The Post.NYCHA would not say whether Brown was on the job when killed.
“My thoughts are with his entire family as they deal with this unimaginable loss,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani wrote on X on Saturday night. “May he rest in peace, and may his service to our city never be forgotten.”
