12Aug
Hurricane Sandy Crept Up on a Boy Who Couldn’t Swim. Guess What He Did.
After Hurricane Sandy brought the ocean to his doorstep, Kenrick Sultan felt a new sense of vulnerability. A shy 15-year-old, he has lived by water his entire life — but he never learned how to swim.
He was born in Antigua, the Caribbean Island known for its 365 beaches. For the past decade, he has lived in the Far Rockaway section of Queens. Before this summer, he had set foot on the beach there exactly once and never so much as dipped a toe in the waves.
