SCITUATE, MASS. (WHDH) - Coast Guard crews have recovered the body of a woman who fell in the water off Scituate on Saturday, state police said.
The Coast Guard responded to reports of a capsized boat at the mouth of the North River at 5 p.m. and responders rescued two of the three people who went in the water before spending hours searching for a 77-year-old woman.
“It’s a tough place. The mouth of the North River is a very difficult place in the best of circumstances because you have adverse winds, you have tides, you have a storm coming in,” said Scituate Town Administrator Jim Boudreau.
The Coast Guard recovered the woman’s body shortly at 9:45 p.m., officials said. The woman, whose name has not been released, was the sixth boater to have lost their lives in the northeast this month.
The woman was not wearing a life jacket, the Coast Guard said.
“My heart goes out to her family,” said Scituate resident Austin Birch. “It’s sad that that could happen to her.”
The two other boaters are expected to be okay, according to officials.
No other information was immediately available.
Correction: the recovered woman was 77 years old.
Conditions at the approximate time the search began:
-Air Temp: 70F; Water Temp: 56F; Wind: 9 knots; 6ft-seas.She was not wearing a lifejacket. #SAR
— USCGNortheast (@USCGNortheast) May 23, 2021
Search was called off last night after a body matching her description was recovered unresponsive by the #USCGC Marlin crew. @MassStatePolice verified missing woman by her ID card. Sadly, this is the 6th boater to have lost their life in the northeast this month.#SAR
— USCGNortheast (@USCGNortheast) May 23, 2021
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