RedactedNarrative: ACCORDING TO subject 1, VESSEL 1 OPERATED BYsubject 2 OWNED BY subject 1 WAS ENTERING CAROLINA BEACH INLET FROM THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.  THE VESSEL WAS CRUISING AT ABOUT 10-20 MPH. subject 1 STATED THAT HE NEVER SAW THE WAVE.  THE WAVE CAUSED BOTH subject 1 AND subject 2 TO BE THROWN INTO THE WATER.  THE TWO MEN, NEITHER WEARING PFDS, BECAME SEPARATED IN THE WATER AND ACCORDING TO subject 1 WERE IN THE WATER FOR APPROXIMATELY 3-4 MINUTES WHEN THEY SAW A PASSING PWC.  subject 1 STATED THAT subject 2 COULD SWIM BUT WAS NOT A VERY STRONG SWIMMER, AND HE COULD TELL HE WAS HAVING TROUBLE KEEPING HIS HEAD ABOVE WATER.  subject 1 THEN YELLED TO THE OPERATOR OF A PASSING PWC TO HELP subject 2.  THE UNKNOWN PERSON OPERATING THE PWC WAS UNABLE TO GET subject 2 OUT OF THE WATER.  subject 2 WAS GIVEN CPR AT THIS TIME BY A PASSENGER ON THE VESSEL UNTIL THEY REACHED THE BEACH AT FREEMAN PARK.  ONCE THEY REACHED THE SHORE, CAROLINA BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT TRANSPORTED subject 2 OFF THE BEACH TO MEDICAL PERSONNEL.  WHILE BEING TRANSPORTED OFF THE BEACH, subject 2 WAS GIVEN CPR BY, RN, BSN who WAS ON THE BEACH WHEN THE VESSEL CAME ASHORE AND SAW THE COMMOTION AND TRIED TO HELP.  NO AUTOPSY WAS DONE ON subject 2.  THE CAUSE OF DEATH STATED BY THE MEDICAL EXAMINER WAS SALTWATER DROWNING.
NameOfBodyOfWater: CAROLINA BEACH INLET
NearestCityTown: CAROLINA BEACH                