PHOTOS: Emergency Rescue Drill at Eastern Long Island Hospital

Emergency medical staff members of and marine education staff from participated in a simulated marine disaster drill held at the of the Greenport hospital Wednesday morning. 

Volunteers posed as injured boaters in different disaster scenarios and were brought directly to the dock, treated at the scene and brought into the hospital. were standing by with a rescue boat and a vessel normally used to maintain a scallop sanctuary in Orient Harbor was also on hand at 8:30 a.m.

chairman of emergency medicine at the hospital, lead the drill — the first of its kind simulating a trauma and dive injuries.

"We also do mass casualty drills — if something were to happen on the , for example," he said. "We do those about once or twice a year."