The body of the third and final crew member, Harry Hernandez, will be recovered.
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The body of a crewman who was trapped in the mangled wreckage of a tugboat that sank after crashing into a barge on the Hudson River was recovered as his family watched from the shoreline.
Chef Michelle Matsko paused as she walked to work Wednesday, gazed up from beneath her red umbrella and marveled: After a full day, a man still was perched near the top of an 80-foot-tall sequoia tree in the middle of a… She was one of three tugs maneuvering a barge under the bridge at the time of impact. “Even though we know that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, we are comforted to know that we can now put his body to rest”.
The boat crash into a stationary barge that was part of the Tappan Zee Bridge construction project on March 12, killing three crewmembers.
Crew on the other tugboats tried to help the Specialist’s crew members, to no avail.
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Also killed in the crash were Paul Amon, 63, of Bayville, N.J., and Timothy Conklin, 29, of Westbury, N.Y. But the body was “near the front of the tugboat, where there is a tremendous amount of damage from the impact”, according to a spokesman with the Westchester County police, making it “impossible” for the divers to remove Hernandez’ body without first raising the tug. “Westchester County Police Department is in charge of investigation and the salvage company is working in concert with the extraction team but the process is done in bits and pieces”.
