📞 “YES. YES THEY ARE.” — THE 911 CALL FROM THE NIGHT TWO CHILDREN WERE LOST IS NOW PUBLIC.

The grandmother’s voice. The darkness. One child back on the boat — while her husband was still in the water searching for the other.

Then the dispatcher asked one devastating question: Were the children unconscious?

Her answer was just four words.

Now, the newly released recording is forcing people to hear those terrifying minutes for themselves — and one detail from the call is raising even more questions about what happened that night…

👇 LISTEN TO THE 911 CALL AND SEE WHAT IT REVEALS.

“Yes, Yes They Are”: Newly Released 911 Audio Captures The Terrifying Minutes After The Stephen Schneider Boat Crash

The newly released 911 recording begins after the collision has already happened. But what it captures next is a frantic race against darkness, cold water and time — as a grandmother tries to tell a dispatcher where her grandchildren are while her husband searches for one of them in Barnegat Bay.

For several weeks, the fatal New Jersey boating crash that killed siblings Mya Bella Golabek, 9, and Sigmund Paul Golabek, 7, has been described largely through police reports, court documents and photographs.

Now the public can hear part of what happened in the immediate aftermath.

The 911 audio, released this week and reported by the New York Post and other outlets, captures the desperate call made by the children’s grandmother, Laurie Schneider, shortly after the July 19 collision.

The recording does not explain why the crash happened.

It does something more unsettling.

It lets listeners hear the confusion that followed.

“My husband’s in the water”

The crash occurred shortly after 9 p.m. on July 19 in the Berkeley Township area of Barnegat Bay.

Stephen Schneider, 64, was operating a roughly 28-foot Tidewater vessel when it struck a channel marker in the Intracoastal Waterway.

His grandchildren were thrown into the water.

According to the newly released recording, Laurie Schneider was trying to explain the rapidly changing situation to the emergency dispatcher.

At one point, she tells the dispatcher:

“We have one on the boat and my husband’s in the water trying to get the other child out.”

The statement immediately establishes the extraordinary circumstances facing the family.

There was no time to calmly explain what had happened.

One child had been recovered.

The other was still missing in the dark water.

And Stephen Schneider was searching for the child himself.

The dispatcher then asks whether the children are unconscious.

Laurie’s answer is immediate:

“Yes, yes they are.”

The short exchange has become one of the most haunting pieces of publicly released evidence in the case.

A location became the next problem

Another difficulty emerges from the recording.

Laurie Schneider was trying to establish exactly where the boat was so emergency responders could find them.

At one point she asks Stephen whether they were near channel marker 39, the marker that authorities say was struck by the boat.

The question illustrates how difficult it was to communicate their location during the emergency.

The family was somewhere on the bay at night.

One child had already been pulled from the water.

Another was still being searched for.

And the person who had been operating the boat was in the water.

For the dispatcher, determining the location was essential.

For the family, every passing minute mattered.

The children had been thrown from the boat

According to police accounts reported previously, Mya and Sigmund had been sitting toward the front of the vessel and were wearing life jackets when the boat struck the channel marker.

Both children were thrown overboard.

Schneider and Laurie subsequently searched for them and found the children unresponsive in the water.

The children were eventually brought aboard and CPR was performed before emergency responders transported them to a hospital.

Both were pronounced dead at Community Medical Center in Toms River.

The newly released audio does not change that basic timeline.

But it adds something that a written police report cannot fully convey: the sound and uncertainty of the emergency as it was happening.

The crucial minutes between the crash and rescue

According to reports based on the emergency call and investigative documents, the 911 call was placed at approximately 9:09 p.m.

New Jersey State Police and Coast Guard personnel responded to the area.

The precise sequence of every action during those minutes remains a matter for investigators and the court record.

But the broader timeline is clear.

The boat struck the marker.

The children went into the water.

The grandparents searched for them.

The children were recovered.

CPR began.

Emergency responders arrived.

The children were transported to the hospital.

They did not survive.

The newly released audio essentially puts the public inside the middle of that sequence.

Why the recording matters to the case

The 911 call does not establish criminal responsibility by itself.

That distinction is important.

Stephen Schneider has been charged with two counts of reckless vessel homicide/death by vessel, along with charges involving boating under the influence and reckless operation. The allegations have not been proven in court.

Prosecutors have said Schneider’s blood alcohol concentration was approximately 0.16, twice New Jersey’s legal limit.

Schneider reportedly told investigators that he had consumed three beers over approximately two hours before the crash and that he was traveling around 20 mph when he saw the channel marker only at the last second.

Those details will be relevant to the prosecution’s case.

But the 911 recording concerns something different.

It documents what happened after the collision.

That distinction could become important as investigators reconstruct the entire event.

The audio also shows the role of the grandmother

Much of the public discussion surrounding the case has focused on Schneider because he was allegedly operating the vessel.

The 911 recording shifts some attention to Laurie Schneider.

She was not at the helm.

She was the person speaking to the emergency dispatcher.

She was also attempting to communicate information while her husband searched the water.

That means the recording provides a rare perspective from someone who was physically present during the immediate aftermath.

Her words help establish what the family believed was happening in those first moments.

But the audio should not be treated as a complete reconstruction.

A person making a 911 call during an emergency may not know exactly what has happened.

They may not know the precise location.

They may not know how badly someone is injured.

And they may be trying to answer several questions while simultaneously attempting to help.

That is precisely why investigators rely on the call alongside physical evidence, witness statements, medical records and other evidence.

Social media has reacted strongly

The release of the recording has reignited online discussion surrounding the case.

On Reddit, earlier reporting about the crash had already generated hundreds of reactions, with commenters debating everything from Schneider’s reported alcohol consumption to the speed of the boat and the children’s life jackets. One widely discussed thread on r/NewJersey drew hundreds of votes.

The 911 recording adds a much more emotional dimension.

Instead of debating numbers on a court document, listeners can hear a family member trying to communicate with emergency services while a child remains in the water.

That distinction has made the case particularly powerful on social media.

However, online reactions should still be separated from evidence.

Some commenters have attempted to use the audio to draw conclusions about what happened before the crash or assign responsibility for decisions made that night.

The recording alone cannot answer those questions.

The bigger unanswered questions remain

The audio may be new, but many of the central questions surrounding the crash remain unresolved.

One concerns Schneider’s reported alcohol level.

Prosecutors say his BAC was about 0.16. Schneider told police he had consumed three beers. The defense is expected to scrutinize the toxicology evidence and the circumstances surrounding the measurement.

Another concerns the channel marker.

Authorities have said the marker was illuminated, while defense attorneys have raised questions about its condition and visibility at the time of the crash.

Schneider reportedly said he saw it only at the last second.

Investigators will ultimately need to establish what the visibility conditions were, how the boat was being operated and whether anything obstructed the operator’s view.

There is also the question of speed.

Schneider reportedly estimated that the boat was traveling at approximately 20 mph.

Whether that estimate is accurate and what the actual speed was at the moment of impact could become relevant to the crash reconstruction.

None of those questions are answered by the 911 recording.

But the recording provides investigators with another piece of the timeline.

The family’s extraordinary position

The audio has also emerged against the backdrop of another unusual development.

The father of Mya and Sigmund asked the court to release Schneider while the criminal case proceeds.

The children’s father described Schneider as a loving grandfather and an important member of the family, according to reports from the Aug. 19 hearing.

Despite prosecutors’ objections, a judge granted Schneider conditional release.

He is prohibited from operating a boat or motor vehicle while undergoing a substance-abuse evaluation and is scheduled to return to court Sept. 15.

That decision has generated substantial online discussion.

But the release is not a finding that Schneider is innocent.

He remains charged, and the case is still moving through the courts.

What happens next

The newly released 911 audio may be one of the most emotionally powerful pieces of material to emerge from the case so far.

But its importance is not necessarily that it reveals a hidden secret.

Its importance is that it documents a moment when the family was still fighting to save two children.

The criminal case will ultimately turn on evidence far broader than a single emergency call.

Investigators and attorneys will continue examining the boat, the channel marker, the alleged alcohol impairment, the vessel’s speed, the children’s positions and the precise sequence of events surrounding the collision.

Schneider’s next court appearance is scheduled for September 15.

Until then, the 911 recording leaves the public with an image that is difficult to shake:

A grandmother on the phone.

One child already recovered.

Another somewhere in the darkness.

And a grandfather still in the water, searching.

The recording does not tell the public everything that happened that night.

But for the first time, it allows the public to hear what those terrifying minutes sounded like.