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Korean Tourist Drowns while Snorkeling
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This goes to show that something as benign as snorkeling might claim lives in a 100% tourist setting. Many tourists don’t swim so the operators put them in life-vests, mask/snorkel, and fins to go put-putting around a shallow coral area. Imagine a group of people, all face down in the water with life vests and moving slowly if at all…not very easy to notice a quiet silence of life.
A Korean national drowned while snorkeling at vicinity waters of Coral Garden snorkeling area at Angol Point, Barangay Manoc-Manoc, Boracay Island, Aklan on June 13, 2010 at 10:30 AM.
Personnel of Coast Guard Detachment Boracay received the drowning incident report from a certain Mrs Sojen Lee of La Isla Hotel Beach Resort, Barangay Manoc-Manoc, Boracay Island.
Immediately, Coast Guard Detachment Boracay personnel proceeded to the said area onboard a Coast Guard rubber boat to conduct search and rescue operations and were able to recover a floating body approximately 250 meters off the shoreline of Barangay Manoc-Manoc. The victim was identified as Chang Hyun Lim, 20 years old single and guest of La Isla Hotel Beach Resort.
According to investigation, Lim was with a group when they rented the motorboat Biha MPC-2 which is owned and operated by Boracay Island Hopping Association. While snorkeling at the said area, Lim had difficulty in breathing and fell unconscious.
At 11:30 AM, the Coast Guard team immediately brought the victim to Caticlan Baptist Hospital Barangay Caticlan, Aklan but was declared dead on arrival.
Copyright (and thanks) to the Philippine Coastguard for the press release as retrieved 2010-06-20T17:11:38. Future corrections and edits will not be reflected here unless specifically annotated.
I’m posting this as general news for clarification since the islands coconut telegraph had a few different stories.
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..and tow tourist were injured in a jet ski collision like 2 weeks ago. SO remember kids…be safe out there!
Jun 22, 2010 at 10:55 AM
Those two injured in the jet ski incident had managed to bump with two chinese also on a jet ski. They had that spread over several reports but apparently both groups were waaaaay out of the jetski area and too close to shore, as a result it’s becoming law that jet skis here are only allowed in an oval track and all going the same direction.
I like some jet ski’s but thats just boring.
Jun 22, 2010 at 6:01 PM