Student: No Warning Given During Long Beach Trip
To view our videos, you need to
enable JavaScript. Learn how.
install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now.
Then come back here and refresh the page.
A classmate of the Harlem sixth grader who drowned at a Long Island beach Tuesday during a school trip tells NY1 nobody warned them not to go in the water.
The male student also says they were given a designated swim area by their chaperones.
Parents at the Columbia Secondary School are still asking why students were taken to a beach that wasn't open for swimming.
The Department of Education has not said whether parents signed permission slips stating students would be swimming.
An independent investigator is looking into the incident.
Meanwhile, police in Long Beach are ordering swimmers out of the water until lifeguard chairs are fully staffed.
A wake will be held Friday for 12-year-old Nicole Suriel.
The funeral will be Saturday at the Church of the Annunciation in Manhattan.