By CYNTHIA R. FAGEN and MATTHEW NESTEL
Posted: 3:44 am
July 6, 2008
Firefighters from the FDNY Marine Unit made a daring rescue in violent waters on the Fourth of July when a party boat of revelers watching fireworks ran aground on a rock jetty in Brooklyn.
Firefighter Robert Senatore, 44, was at the helm of the FDNY's quick-response rescue craft when he and partner Dean Tartaro, 41,were alerted to the battered boat on the Coney Island jetty at Seagate at 10:30 p.m. Friday.
To reach five panicked passengers, Senatore, of Marine No. 3, near Kingsborough Community College, piloted behind a cresting wave so Tartaro at the bow could grab the victims - Marat Nekhamiyev, 28, and his son Daniel, 4, of Brooklyn, Viola Abramova, 27; Thomas Bishli, and boat owner David Manashir, 28 of Cliffside Park, NJ - off the jagged rocks before the next wave hit.
"We got the kid in first. He was crying," Senatore recalled.
All were safely brought aboard.
"I'd like to say it was just another day, but it was freaky," Tartaro added.
"Everyone is fine. It was an accident," said Manashir.
"We will be thanking them very soon," he said of the two hero rescuers.
