Colin contacted the U.S. Coast Guard and requested the phone numbers for the stations responsible for search and rescue on Long Island and Connecticut waters. It might be a good idea to place the ones for the area you paddle in your cell phones contact file. Below is their response to his request.<\/p>\n
Mr. Mullen,<\/em><\/p>\n Thank you for your inquiry.<\/em><\/p>\n Below are a list of our stations and their contact numbers:<\/em> Please advise your club members that cell phone service is very unreliable on the water.\u00a0 A VHF radio is an essential piece of paddler emergency equipment that could save one’s life.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Best Regards,<\/em> Colin contacted the U.S. Coast Guard and requested the phone numbers for the stations responsible for search and rescue on Long Island and Connecticut waters. It might be a good idea to place the ones for the area you paddle in your cell phones contact file. Below is their response to his request. Mr. Mullen, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n New London (860) 442-4471<\/em>
\n New Haven (203) 988-4323<\/em>
\n Kings Point (516) 466-7135<\/em>
\n Eaton’s Neck (631) 261-6959<\/em>
\n Jones Beach (516) 785-2995<\/em>
\n Fire Island (631) 661-9101<\/em>
\n Shinnecock (631) 728-0343<\/em>
\n Montauk (631) 668-2773<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Petty Officer Erik Swanson, PA2<\/em>
\n U.S. Coast Guard\/DHS<\/em>
\n Public Affairs Detachment New York<\/em>
\n 1 South St. New York, NY 10004<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"