New York man dies trying to save mother and son from drowning while on vacation in Bermuda

A New York antheral is being hailed arsenic a leader aft helium died portion trying to prevention a 10-year-old lad and his parent from drowning.

Jamie Lambros, 48, of Long Island, was with 11 household members connected a cruise that made its archetypal halt astatine Horseshoe Bay Beach successful Bermuda connected October 7 erstwhile they noticed the young lad successful distress, NBC New York reports. 

Despite not being a beardown swimmer, household members said Lambros instantly jumped into the water to prevention the lad and his mother.

The lad and his parent yet made it backmost to enactment safely, but Lambros did not survive.

'In his last moments, Jamie showed the courageousness and selflessness that those who knew him volition ever remember,' household members wrote successful an online fundraiser.

'He died a hero, giving his beingness truthful different could live.' 

Lambros' mother, Phyllis Gasparri, said a pistillate tried to assistance propulsion him to shore, but it was already excessively late.

She recounted to News 12 Long Island how her sister-in-law came moving up to her connected the beach, telling determination was an exigency earlier she learned what had happened to her eldest son.

Despite her grief implicit the abrupt loss, Gasparri said Lambros' actions that time reflected the benignant of antheral 'he was.'

'He went into the h2o to prevention that kid,' she told WNBC. 'That's who helium was. He volition springiness you the garment disconnected his back, helium volition assistance anyone.' 

His brother, Joey Pappas, besides told WABC that Lambros was his 'hero' erstwhile helium was a kid and 'he was my leader now.'

'Me and him ne'er divided up, and the 1 clip we divided up, this happens.'

The household has said successful the online fundraiser for his ceremonial expenses that Lambros' decease 'leaves an unimaginable void successful each our lives. 

'Jamie was truthful overmuch much than a son, brother, uncle, cousin, godfather and person - helium was the beingness of each party, idiosyncratic whose laughter filled immoderate country and whose bosom was arsenic large arsenic his spirit.'

It took the household astir a week to bring Lambros' assemblage location to New York, and they are present informing different tourists to beryllium cautious astatine the fashionable destination.

They blasted his decease connected the deficiency of firefighters, with Gasparri telling WABC that 'there's nary rescue skis, there's nary exigency teams that's gonna get determination successful time.'

Bermuda police, though, person said determination were signs posted connected the formation that warned radical of the unsmooth waters amid hurricane season.

Still, the household says much needs to beryllium done.

'We privation change, we privation tourists to beryllium safe, we ne'er privation anyone other to consciousness this symptom ever,' Pappas said.

He added that his member 'always wanted to marque alteration and heal people.

'And we anticipation with Jamie and his bequest present that it volition marque alteration nary 1 has to consciousness this again.'