Dead kayakers

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CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) - The Coast Guard tentatively identified the
body of a Huntington, N.Y. woman who had been missing since she and
a companion began a kayaking trip two days ago.
The suspected remains of Mary Jagoda, 20, were found off the
coast of Monomoy Island near Cape Cod at 11:50 a.m. Tuesday, said
Massachusetts State Police Sgt. James Plath.
The identification was based on physical characteristics
including clothing and a tattoo. The state medical examiner's
office was working to confirm the identity.
The Coast Guard ended its search for her companion - Sarah
Aronoff, 19, of Bethesda, Md. - Tuesday night.
Jagoda, a junior at Brandeis University, was the sole remaining
child of Louis and Anna May Jagoda. Her brother, Jake, 24, an
employee of Cantor Fitzgerald, was killed in the Sept. 11, 2001,
attack on the World Trade Center. Another child died in infancy 20
years ago.
"We looked forward with excitement to what she was going to do
in the future," Anna May Jagoda said of her daughter.
She praised local authorities for the effort that went into the
search, despite its "devastating and horrible" end.
"We had hoped for a while," she said. "We can only thank them
... they did a wonderful job. It just wasn't successful."
Jagoda and her friend Sarah Aronoff, 19, of Bethesda, Md.,
started at a boat launch in Harwichport, paddling a pair of 8-foot
plastic kayaks into foggy conditions on Sunday afternoon. A friend
reported them missing later that day.
The Coast Guard had searched for Aronoff continuously for 50
hours, covering an area of 710 square nautical miles, Petty Officer
Jaimie Knife said.
Aronoff was a student at Franklin & Marshall College in
Lancaster, Pa., who met Jagoda through their boyfriends, according
to her mother, Victoria Aronoff.
The two capsized kayaks were found Monday in an area known as
Pollock Rip Channel, a mile south of Monomoy, an island south of
Chatham that is about eight miles long and several miles wide.
Park rangers searched an abandoned lighthouse on Monomoy on
Monday afternoon but there was no sign of the two women.