by Jess Wisloski and DAVE GOLDINER
Firefighters rescued three Manhattan businessmen from Long Island Sound yesterday after their 30-foot fishing boat was torn to shreds by hidden rocks. The boat's unidentified owner and operator, who launched from the World's Fair Marina in Queens with two friends, told rescuers heavy rain obscured his sight.
"He said he was going slow, and he couldn't see, and then he hit one of the rocks," said Firefighter Jim Sullivan, who works on one of the FDNY's three summer boats that patrol the city's recreational waterways from May to October.
Sullivan and partner Chris Fitzsimmons found the three men bobbing 2 miles from shore about 20 minutes after the 4 p.m. wreck.
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