Visitor snorkeling on Maui dies after being found floating offshore
A 52-year-old visitor died after she was found unresponsive while snorkeling at Keawakapu Beach in Kihei.
Her name has yet to be released.
Just after 10 a.m. Thursday, emergency crews responded to a call of an unresponsive woman who bystanders pulled from the ocean fronting Mana Kai Maui Resort.
The Maui Fire Department said the visitor from Canada and her spouse were swimming toward the shore after snorkeling together. When the spouse reached the shore, he couldn’t find her.
Shortly afterward, the woman was spotted floating on the water just offshore. The fire department said a bystander swam out on a paddleboard and brought her to shore where two nurses, a doctor and a retired firefighter vacationing on Maui performed CPR until paramedics arrived.
They performed advanced life-saving measures to no avail and the woman died at the scene.