The US Coast Guard was searching Monday for a sixth person who may still be missing a day after a boat capsized between Brooklyn and Staten Island, killing three and leaving two in the hospital.
The 30-foot-long, gray-and-white vessel shoved off from a marina at Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach on Sunday morning, sources told The Post.
But sometime around noon, a distress call came from the boat’s spot in the Ambrose Channel, the city’s main shipping lane that cuts between the two Big Apple boroughs, cops said.
NYPD divers, the US Coast Guard and other agencies descended on the scene and tracked the cell phone pings to a sunken boat off the coast of New Jersey.
Authorities pulled five victims from the chilly waters — four of whom were unconscious during the rescue.
They airlifted two people to Staten Island Hospital and brought three others to Coast Guard Station Sandy Hook.
Three victims eventually died from their injuries. One is in critical condition and the last is stable, cops said.
The Coast Guard said Sunday evening its divers were still searching for one more potential victim in the waters southeast of Breezy Point in Queens because a survivor said one person was still unaccounted for.
The NYPD, however, believes everyone has been found.
It’s still not clear what happened before the boat flipped, and authorities are still investigating the accident.
