A quiet day in Placencia turned tragic on Tuesday when a man drowned just steps from the shore. Witnesses say the man had been fishing near the beach when, in a matter of moments, he was seen floating face down in the water. One nearby resident didn’t hesitate. He rushed to the scene and desperately tried to revive the man, performing CPR in a valiant effort to save his life. Sadly, it was too late. We spoke with Nevin Duran, who witnessed the rescue attempt. He described the chilling moment he realized something was wrong and the heroic actions that followed.
“I was looking around and like me and my brother race going like towards Barefoot. And we came back that, that took us like five minutes and when we came back we saw the, guy that lives right in front, he was pulling the guy out of the water. We tried to run and asked what happened? And he said I don’t know. He was just perfectly fine swimming and once of a sudden he was just like, face down in the water. It was past like a minute and he was like shocked and went to see if he was fine. He was binging the guy out of the water. I ran to him, me and my brother, and we both asked him like, what happened? And he’s performing CPR trying to bring back the guy. But it wasn’t working. That was going on for ten minutes. And I was just standing there because, I can’t do nothing. I can’t really do nothing. There is like this guy performing CPR and me and my brother just standing there. And so he is okay, one of you guys gotta help me take him to the shade, so my brother didn’t want to really do anything because he like in shock standing there. So I like put my shoes down on my phone. And then we took him to the coconut tree where there was like a shed. And I left him there. The guy that was performing CPR, he continued doing it, so like more people surrounded and they called the police, and the police arrived and they like tried to help the situation, but like I had to come to work, so I left, like right after the police came by.”
At this time, the identify of the victim remains unknown.