On sunday, july 23, 2023, at approximately 1800 hours, Subject was hydrofoiling behind the 2002 19-foot carolina skiff.  Subject had made six or seven attempts with the seventh one being a very hard fall.  Subject was not able to get up on the hydrofoil board on the eighth attempt and fell into the water.  

When subject fell, the operator stopped the boat.  Once the boat was stopped, the operator saw subject swimming towards the hydrofoil board. The operator started pulling the ski rope in and noticed that subject had stopped swimming.  

The operator put the boat in gear and went to subject.   As the operator pulled up, he noticed subject floating face down being held up by the type lll personal flotation device he was wearing.  The operator jumped in and rolled subject over onto his back.  As he tried to swim back to the boat holding on to subject, the current and wind pushed the boat away from them.  

The operator had to leave subject floating on his back and swim back to the boat.  Unable to reboard the boat, the operator began yelling for help and was finally able to flag down another boat who came to their aid.  The other boat loaded subject and began cpr while taking him to the boat ramp where ems was standing by.  Ems attempted life saving measures but subject was pronounced deceased at the scene.


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