The fall shattered his right arm, broke every rib that he had, punctured his lung, and he drifted in and out of consciousness as he drifted down the East River, under the Brooklyn Bridge and out into the pathway of the Staten Island Ferry, where passengers on the ferry heard his cries of pain, contacted the boat's captain who contacted the Coast Guard who fished him out of the East River and took him to Bellevue Hospital.
La caída le destrozó el brazo derecho, le quebró cada una de sus costillas, le perforó un pulmón, y perdía y recuperaba la conciencia mientras iba a la deriva por el East River, bajo el puente de Brooklyn, hasta que salió a la vía del ferry de Staten Island, donde los pasajeros del ferry al oír sus gritos de dolor, contactaron con el capitán del barco que llamó a la Guardia Costera que lo sacó del East River y lo llevó al Hospital Bellevue.