Tag: incident in the sea
Jet skier injured in smash as water speeders keep CICG busy
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Coast Guard dealt with a total of seven incidents last Sunday, 28 August, which was described as a busier than normal Sunday by the CICG. One person was injured and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after two personal watercraft (PWC) collided in one incident.
GC police sent to Brac to investigate child’s death
(CNS): Five police investigators, supported by forensic specialists and a pathologist, have been sent to Cayman Brac to support local officers investigating the tragic death of a two-year-old girl on the island on Monday. The RCIPS team from Grand Cayman was sent on Wednesday and police said they are now carrying out a full investigation […]
Police open inquiry after toddler drowns on Brac
(CNS): The RCIPS is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a two-year-old child, whose body was found along the shoreline by the Cayman Brac Fire Service (CIFS) this morning (Tuesday 26 July). Police said the child was last seen at around 4.30am. She was discovered missing at about 5:10am and the police were notified […]
US visitor dies after swimming off 7MB
(CNS): A 50-year-old visitor from the United States was pulled out of the sea off Seven Mile Beach west of Marsh Road on Tuesday evening after he lost consciousness. Police said that at around 5:30pm people nearby saw that he was in distress and pulled him out of the water. They conducted CPR until emergency […]
Missing US visitor’s body found in East End
(CNS) UPDATED: The body of a 54-year-old man who was reported missing about 4pm Monday and found Tuesday morning on the shore off the Queen’s Highway in East End has been identified as Jason Douglas Brant. The man, who was visiting Cayman, from Colorado in the United States had gone out snorkelling on Monday afternoon […]
US visitor dies after snorkelling at Kittiwake
(CNS): A 55-year-old man who was visiting the Cayman Islands from the United States has become the third person to die in the sea this year. Police said that shortly after 3:15pm Wednesday, 15 June, officers responded to a report of a person in distress at sea. The man, who had been snorkelling near the […]
Local man dies after Smith Cove swim
(CNS) UPDATED: Police have now confirmed that the 75-year-old Caymanian man who died on Saturday afternoon at Smith Cove after he got into difficulties during a swim in the sea was Eldon Leroy Nixon, from George Town. Other people at the popular beach had noticed that he was in distress and brought him back to […]
Rescue mission turns to recovery for ganja crew
(CNS): Three men who were said to be aboard a ganja boat that capsized somewhere in the North Sound on Friday are now presumed lost at sea after a weekend of searching by the police, fire service and coastguard without success. The one crew member who was rescued on Friday, a 35-year-old man from Jamaica, […]
Search still on for missing ganja boat crew
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Coast Guard, police and fire service continued searching Saturday for missing crew members after a ganja boat capsized in local waters Friday and one man was rescued. The first report received by the CICG was of packages floating in the general area of Governor’s Harbour Channel. The coastguard and fire service […]
US visitor dies after snorkelling off 7MB
(CNS): A 67-year-old man from the United States who was found in the sea close to The Beachcomber off the West Bay Road, along Seven Mile Beach, was pronounced dead at the George Town hospital on Friday afternoon. The man was in the water snorkelling when he lost consciousness and was brought to shore by […]
Hotel chef was man who fell overboard
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Coast Guard has confirmed that the body pulled from the North Sound yesterday was Kasun Tharuka Madushanka Fernando (32), who had fallen overboard from a party boat on Monday night. According to his social media accounts, Fernando, who is from Sri Lanka, had been working as a chef at the Westin […]
