Tag: incident in the sea
Visitor dies while swimming at Rum Point
(CNS): A 52-year-old man who was visiting the Cayman Islands from Canada died while in the water in Rum Point on Friday afternoon, police have said. The man was reportedly found unconscious in the water and was brought to the boat he had been on by members of the public, who then administered CPR.
Man who drowned in GT Harbour identified
(CNS): Police have confirmed that the deceased man who was pulled from George Town Harbour by Cayman Islands Fire Service officers on the evening of Saturday, 21 October, was Raheem Tyrike Barrett (27), a Jamaican national residing in the Cayman Islands. Police had managed to track down his family several days after the man drowned […]
Man’s body pulled from harbour late Saturday night
(CNS): The RCIPS is in the process of identifying the body of a man that was recovered from George Town Harbour late Saturday night. Staff at the Port Authority contacted the 911 call centre to report what appeared to be a person in the water. Police and fire officers attended the location and conducted a search, during […]
Two missing Cubans now feared lost at sea
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Coat Guard, fire crews, police and border control ceased their joint operation Monday night after another day of searching for two missing Cuban men who were part of a group of ten migrants shipwrecked off the coast of Cayman Brac at the weekend. After a full day of search and recovery, […]
Two Cubans missing, eight rescued at sea
(CNS): A major search and rescue operation involving the police, coastguard, fire service, border control and private boat owners in the sea around Cayman Brac was conducted Saturday and Sunday, in which eight Cuban men were rescued. However, two more are missing. According to Customs and Border Control (CBC), the operation began after one man […]
Liveaboard dive boat runs aground on Sandbar
(CNS): Aggressor Adventures, the owners of the liveaboard dive boat, the Cayman Aggressor IV, which ran aground in the North Sound on Thursday morning, have said it is no longer on the Sting Ray City sandbar and was being moved to her anchorage this evening. The owners said there were no injuries, everyone was safely […]
Jamaican man dies after swim at Spotts Beach
(CNS) UPDATED Wednesday evening: The RCIPS has now named the man who died Monday, 28 August, after swimming in the sea off Spotts Beach in Prospect as Rovyn Jerone Cameron, a 21-year-old Jamaican national who was living in the Cayman Islands after a family member identified him Tuesday.
GT man dies after passing out during swim
(CNS): A 65-year-old unidentified man from George Town died at the hospital Thursday morning after he was pulled out of the water by the fire service. The man had reportedly lost consciousness in the water off the shore of North Church Street, north of Arthur’s Way, where he had been swimming.
Swimmer dies two days after being pulled from sea
(CNS): A 55-year-old man who was pulled out of the sea last Wednesday afternoon in West Bay and given CPR by a member of the public has died after two days in hospital. The man, who was a visitor to the Cayman Islands, was pulled out of the sea somewhere off Seven Mile Beach at […]
NCC chairman dies snorkelling
(CNS): McFarlane “Mac” Conolly (70), the chairman and original member of the National Conservation Council, died yesterday afternoon after getting into difficulties while snorkelling off Colliers Beach. The RCIPS said that officers were dispatched around 3:10pm following a report that someone was in distress on the shore off Austin Conolly Drive in East End.
80-year-old US visitor dies after West Bay swim
(CNS): An 80-year-old woman who was visiting Cayman from the United States was pronounced dead at the hospital last Thursday after swimming in West Bay. At around 10:00am, Emergency Medical Services received a call that the woman was in distress on the beach at Boggy Sands, where she had been swimming before getting into difficulty […]
