Cayman Net News: Holidaymaker dies snorkeling

Holidaymaker dies snorkeling

Monday, June 26, 2006

The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service, (RCIPS) confirmed on Friday 23 June that an American holiday maker died on the Islands on Wednesday while snorkeling.

Police said that at 5:47 on Wednesday evening, 20 June the 911 Emergency Communications Centre received information that a tourist who had been snorkeling with his family was found unconscious on a Bodden Town Beach.

The man was 49-year-old Tom Demarco who was visiting Grand Cayman from Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. He was on vacation with his wife and son.

The RCIPS said that officers have launched an investigation but they are not treating the death as suspicious at this time.

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