POLIHALE — A 35-year-old visitor from Burbank, Calif. apparently drowned yesterday afternoon after he got in trouble while swimming off Polihale State Beach Park. An autopsy will be performed to determined the cause of death. Waimea Fire Capt. Dellick Numazawa
POLIHALE — A 35-year-old visitor from Burbank, Calif. apparently drowned
yesterday afternoon after he got in trouble while swimming off Polihale State
Beach Park.
An autopsy will be performed to determined the cause of
death.
Waimea Fire Capt. Dellick Numazawa said a Washington state man
spotted the California man floating 50 to 75 yards off shore from the main
pavilion at the park, donned a pair of fins, swam out from the beach and
brought the California man back to shore.
A nurse from Colorado,
beachgoers, emergency personnel from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, county
firefighters from the Waimea Station and American Medical Response medical
personnel attempted to revive the man at the beach. The man had no pulse when
he was transported by ambulance to the Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital. He was
pronounced dead at 2: 40 p.m.
If the man did drown, it would be the second
drowning off Kaua’i waters this year. On Jan. 14., the body of a 75-year-old
Numila man was found floating in waters off Camp One in Wahiawa.
