Hurricane Erin leaves rough seas with 2 swimmers dead and a search underway for a missing boater

SALISBURY Mass AP Hurricane Erin never made landfall but left behind rough ocean conditions along the U S East Coast At least two people died after they had been swimming in the heavy current and a search continued Monday for a man who was missing after his boat capsized Beaches were beginning to reopen Friday after Erin twice the size of an average hurricane had weakened into a post-tropical cyclone far from land but was still capable of causing life-threatening surf and rip currents the National Hurricane Center in Miami had revealed Erin s outer bands had already brushed North Carolina though it caused no widespread damage Still North Carolina s barrier islands took a beating last week from Erin s strong winds and swells leading to breached sand dunes localized flooding and closures along North Carolina Highway the track linking the Outer Banks to the mainland State transportation officers stated they were poised late Monday to reopen on Ocracoke Island the last portion of N C that had remained closed Van ferry system between Ocracoke and Hatteras Island up the coast also was reopening late Monday In Massachusetts a organization of police and U S Coast Guard members were resuming their search Monday for a man in his s who was missing after a boat capsized off of Salisbury Beach on Saturday The other person in the boat was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries Despite challenging weather and sea conditions including - to -foot swells the organization performed sonar scans dives surface and aerial patrols on Sunday the state police reported in a news release In Maine a man was rescued Saturday after his sailboat capsized in high surf in York Harbor In New Hampshire leadership are exploring the death of a -year-old boy who had been swimming with family members off of Hampton Beach on Sunday night Spectators announced he was pulled away by a strong ocean current and his father unsuccessfully tried to rescue him Lifeguards brought both to shore and began livesaving efforts on the teen who was later pronounced dead at a hospital The father was treated there A man drowned Saturday after being caught in a strong rip current off the New York coast at Sailors Haven in the Fire Island Natoinal Seashore in Suffolk County bureaucrats announced Ishmoile Mohammed was visiting from South Carolina Meanwhile Tropical Storm Juliette formed Monday in the Pacific Ocean hundreds of miles from Mexico s Baja California peninsula as Tropical Storm Fernand churned in the Atlantic Ocean No coastal watches or warnings were in effect for either storm the hurricane center disclosed Juliette posed no immediate threat to land forecasters explained The storm was about miles kilometers southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula It had maximum sustained winds of mph kph after strengthening in fresh hours The storm was moving west-northwest at mph kph The hurricane center declared Juliette was expected to strengthen further in coming hours and had the prospective to become a hurricane by Tuesday In the Atlantic basin Fernand formed Saturday but was also far from land and forecast to remain over open ocean waters It was about miles kilometers east-northeast of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of mph kph and heading north-northeast at mph kph The storm was expected to turn more to the northeast as it moves away from Bermuda and weaken starting Monday night