Russell Crowe was up Sh*t creek (or the sea, whatevs.

Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe has been rescued by the US coastguard after getting lost on a kayak trip off New York's Long Island.

The 48-year-old actor and his friend, Chris Feather, set out on Saturday afternoon but got lost as night fell.

The coastguard heard Crowe call out from the shore around 22:00, after the pair were forced to beach their kayaks.

Crowe posted a message on Twitter in the early hours of Sunday, thanking the rescue team "for guiding the way".

Later, he added: "Not lost, we knew where exactly where we were, paddling around from CSH [Cold Spring Harbour] into wind, we ran out of day.

"Grand adventure eh @chris_feather?"

Coast Guard Petty Officer, Robert Swieicki said he had not recognised the Gladiator star as he and Feather, a personal trainer, paddled over to the rescue boat.

He insisted the award-winning Australian actor "just needed a little bit of help", adding "he just got a little lost".

"It wasn't really a rescue, really, more of just giving someone a lift," said Swieicki.

The coastguard officers lifted the pair and their kayaks into the boat and ferried them to Huntington Bay, 10 miles from where the pair had set out on their trip.

Swieicki said Crowe, who was grateful and friendly, seemed like he was a fairly experienced kayaker.

He said no one was injured, and the two men were wearing life vests.

Crowe has previously played a naval commander, Captain "Lucky Jack" Aubrey, in the Oscar-nominated drama Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World.

The star is currently on Long Island playing the biblical seafarer Noah, in a big budget film by director Darren Aronofsky, scheduled for release in 2014.

He won an Academy Award for best actor for his role as a Roman soldier called Maximus in Ridley Scott's Roman epic, Gladiator.

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im_chris_hansen 3rd-Sep-2012 05:09 pm (UTC)

he should have called TUGGAH for help!

cuteej4 3rd-Sep-2012 05:09 pm (UTC)

Glad he's okay still

I wish his personality was better because maybe I wouldn't dislike him so much.

He's totally going to be the weakest link of Les Mis

heartina_cage 3rd-Sep-2012 05:10 pm (UTC)

pixiegerms 3rd-Sep-2012 05:13 pm (UTC)

the biblical seafarer Noah

r u srs

midnight_lite 3rd-Sep-2012 05:13 pm (UTC)

WHERE WAS TUGGAH

flyingpigs_live 3rd-Sep-2012 05:19 pm (UTC)

i live on LI and this was in our local paper. my mom got really excited when she read it because used to live right near CSH. i was like "Russell Crowe is not a person to get excited over".

/csb

hoot 3rd-Sep-2012 05:37 pm (UTC)

I just moved to LI and I'm excited that this is the first big news story since I moved here, lol.

flyingpigs_live 3rd-Sep-2012 06:24 pm (UTC)

lol. where on LI did you move to?

hoot 3rd-Sep-2012 06:35 pm (UTC)

Port Jeff. LOVE it here so far.

flyingpigs_live 3rd-Sep-2012 06:40 pm (UTC)

oh wow that's a REALLY nice area. and you can always take the ferry to Connecticut from there for a day trip or something. :)

but there are a ton of things to do in Suffolk.

ditzygrly 3rd-Sep-2012 07:02 pm (UTC)

Yayy li! I'm from stony brook

nightpwnsj00 3rd-Sep-2012 07:08 pm (UTC)

Whoooo LI! I'm from Lake Grove/Ronkonkoma.

ohsnapohsnap 3rd-Sep-2012 07:10 pm (UTC)

holbrook holla

love PJ

sideshowkat 3rd-Sep-2012 06:55 pm (UTC)

I just find it so funny that he got lost in the freaking Long Island Sound.

flyingpigs_live 3rd-Sep-2012 07:24 pm (UTC)

no i agree! i mean, there are only so many places you can go from there without finding another harbor or something.

but then again, i live on the south shore of LI, so I don't know that much about the Sound.

sideshowkat 3rd-Sep-2012 07:35 pm (UTC)

I live on the north shore, and idk, I just think it's so funny because you will guaranteed run into a rich person's private harbor or something. But it sounds like he went too far north and it was dark. Still, though....LOL.

flyingpigs_live 3rd-Sep-2012 07:41 pm (UTC)

exactly, even if he ends up in CT or something, he should still have ended up somewhere. Though I suppose if he doesn't know the area...but still.

sideshowkat 3rd-Sep-2012 07:48 pm (UTC)

Yep...look at the geography, the coastline isn't a straight line. Land sticks out everywhere, that's why I'm wondering how the hell he got so far away from land in that area?