CELINE FU Fell off watercraft.
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The bodies of two missing jet skiers were pulled from the waters off Sea Gate in Brooklyn yesterday as weeping relatives looked on.
Willie Tom, 44, and Celine Fu, 29, were riding on the same Jet Ski when Fu fell off and disappeared under the water near Kaiser Park on Thursday night, witnesses said.
Tom, who was driving the water craft, jumped in to save her but was apparently dragged under by the struggling Fu. Neither was wearing a life vest.
“He was a great man, an adventurous guy. He loved helping people,” said Tom’s brother, Michael, 38, as he and their mother watched from the Coney Island shore yesterday afternoon while police divers recovered the bodies.
“There was no way he was going to come up without her. She was struggling, and if she wasn’t coming up, he wasn’t without her,” Michael Tom said, adding that his brother was a “great swimmer.”
Tom’s body was recovered around noon. Fu’s was found by the NYPD Harbor Unit an hour later.