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Shyne Graham beats the odds Baldwin infant leaves the hospital — five months after she was born and had symptoms that included a fever. Hospital staff told her that was normal after a What started as a visit to C-section, but Turner wasn’t NYU Langone in Mineola for convinced. She felt like it was bleeding and mysterious con- something more. Tests revealed that she had tractions for Phaebe Turner, of Baldwin, on Jan. 24 turned into pneumonia, strep throat and E. something more serious. Awak- coli — and Shyne had all three ening from surgery later, she illnesses as well. “The highest was greeted with level of stress you cong ratulations. can think of, times Her baby wasn’ t 1,000,” Turner said, due until Mother’s recalling how she Day, but her emerfelt at the time. g e n cy o p e r a t i o n “You worry about tur ned into the the possibility of birth of a baby girl, h av i n g t o g o Shyne Graham. through a loss “It was shock, again — not only fear and, you know, the loss of a baby, kind of in disbelief, but the loss of your because (I) didn’t life as well. come into the hospi“What would tal for that,” Turner have happened if r e c o u n t e d . “ I t PHAEBE TURNER you didn’t advocate w a s n ’ t i n t h e Baldwin for yourself ?” she plans.” added. “If I said, Delivered by C-section, Shyne was more than ‘OK, this is going to pass’?” 2 4 we e k s p r e m a t u r e, a n d Shyne was a “rainbow baby,” weighed just under 2 pounds, 11 born after Turner had a previounces. As a result, she began ous miscarriage on Mother’s her life in the hospital’s neona- Day 2022 — exactly two years tal intensive care unit — and as before the date Shyne was due. if that weren’t enough, there Over the course of Shyne’s were other complications. 147-day hospitalization, she The day after she was born, breathed through a tube, and her mother wasn’t feeling well, ContinuEd on pagE 2
By HERNESTo GAlDAMEZ
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Courtesy Emily Bess
Emily Bess, left, has launched Siren Song Charters, a female-owned charter boat company in Freeport. Her father, Rick Cohen, is accompanying her on the boat.
Boating is in Emily Bess’ blood
Third-generation captain tours along South Shore By HERNESTo GAlDAMEZ hgaldamez@liherald.com
Baldwin native Emily Bess teaches highschool English in Queens during the school year. But when summer arrives, she trades her classroom for the open water along Long Island’s South Shore as a captain and tour guide for a charter boat company. Bess showcases her passengers the best of what the South Shore has to offer aboard the Freeport-based Siren Song Charters, female owned and operated business by her. Her earliest memories include spending time aboard the boat operated by her father, Rick Cohen, who navigated the Freeport Water Taxi, a cruise company he founded in 2012 that offers boat tours and shuttle ser-
vice to and from Freeport and Point Lookout. Two years later, Bess received her U.S. Coast Guard captain’s license — marking a third generation that her family has earned that credential — and she took over piloting the water taxi service. “I grew up around boats,” Bess, a Class of 2006 Baldwin High School graduate, said. “I’m a third-generation Long Island boater. My father is a captain; my grandfather passed when I was little and was a Long Island fisherman. “This is kind of what I’ve always known, but it’s kind of atypical for girls to be boat captains,” she added. As she began to learn how to operate a boat, she also learned the business aspect ContinuEd on pagE 15
his journey, the last six months with Shyne, has created more of a purpose for me.