Coast Guard give Crowe a lift (From Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News)
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Coast Guard give Crowe a lift
5:21am Monday 3rd September 2012 in National Entertainment News © Press Association 2013
Russell Crowe is on Long Island filming his new movie Noah
Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe lost his way kayaking off New York's Long Island but was picked up by a Coast Guard boat and safely taken to shore, the US Coast Guard said.
The 48-year-old actor was kayaking with a friend on Saturday. They launched the kayak from Cold Spring Harbor on the Long Island Sound but lost their way as the sun went down. T
he Coast Guard said Crowe and his friend apparently made their way to Huntington Bay beach and called out to a boat on patrol.
Petty Officer Robert Swieciki said the two paddled over to the boat, got on board and hitched a lift back to Huntington Harbor.
Crowe is on Long Island filming new movie Noah in Oyster Bay.
He sent a Twitter message thanking the officers.
