Updated at 9:40 p.m., Sunday, February 18, 2007
Man, 23, pulled from ocean off Waikiki dies
Advertiser Staff
A 23-year-old man who was brought to shore today at Fort DeRussey beach by a city lifeguard on a jetski died at Straub Hospital & Clinic.Police said the man was a deck hand aboard a boat and got into trouble in the water.
City Emergency Services spokesman Bryan Cheplic said the man was found about 50 feet deep in the water at 1:15 p.m.
The lifeguard was in the area assisting the Coast Guard with a tour boat in trouble when he responded to the call for a missing diver, according to Cheplic.
The Honolulu Medical Examiner's Office did not release the man's name.
