Rescue vehicles & chopper on Sat -

[Carey]

Noticed a lot of rescue activity heading out to lower Puna mid-afternoon on Sat. - but did not find out till this afternoon that there was a potential drowning at Orrs Beach in Waawaa - Mid aged man got caught up in some wicked water 10 yards out...

[bananahead]

not much to add

http://www.khon2.com/content/news/develo...nUzuQ.cspx

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[bananahead]

a little more info here... title says 'drowns'

http://www.hawaii247.com/2013/03/23/man-...-march-23/

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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha

[waawaawah]

Does anyone know name of drowning victim?

[opihikao]

FYI: So sad.

(*Snipped - More at link)

http://bigislandnow.com/2013/03/27/swimm...y-drowned/

by Big Island Now Staff


A 37-year-old Colorado man pulled from the water off a Puna beach Saturday died of drowning.

That was the results of an autopsy performed Tuesday, police said today.

[opihikao]

FYI: Update: 4/1/13

by Big Island Now Staff


Police have identified a 37-year-old man who drowned March 23 while swimming off the lower Puna coast as Jay Patrick Corbett of Gunnison, Colo.

Police said Corbett apparently became trapped underwater by currents while jumping off cliffs with friends at Orr’s Beach off the Waawaa subdivision.

http://bigislandnow.com/2013/04/01/polic...ng-victim/