October 23, 2007 -- The brother of a New Jersey man who died when a fishing boat capsized after hitting a tugboat's tow line said yesterday that the tug flashed its lights but never sounded warnings from its horn.

The crew decided to proceed because they didn't hear those warning blasts, said Orlando Chacon, the brother of victim Robert Chacon, 46, of Saddle Brook, N.J.

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Two men drowned and two were plucked from the water in a dramatic rescue after a motorboat hit the towline of a passing tugboat and capsized in lower New York Bay Saturday night, authorities said.

Three of the boaters were tossed from the 24-foot Mako into the Ambrose Channel and one was pulled off the overturned vessel by a Brooklyn party fishing boat at about 11 p.m., authorities and witnesses said.


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