Visitor Drowns On Kauai Trying To Save Swimmer

POSTED: 8:35 am HST December 18, 2006
UPDATED: 9:28 am HST December 18, 2006

HONOLULU -- A visitor drowned on Sunday in waters off Kauai while trying to save a boy who needed help, officials said.

The Alabama man, along with three others, jumped into the water at Lumahai Beach after spotting a 14-year-old swimmer in trouble.

The rough sea and strong current made it difficult for everyone.

Eventually, surfers and body boarders helped to bring them ashore.

Paramedics transported the man to Wilcox Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.

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