A young man drowned on Tuesday afternoon in Placencia.
Eyewitness Nevin Duran recounted the chilling incident, which unfolded just before noon. He said, “Me and my brother went swimming, and, you know, we were there just swimming normally. We were playing like a race. And then we saw this guy… he was not far from us. He was like fishing.”
Duran explained that the young man had walked into the water with a fishing rod. “We didn’t really pay attention to him,” he said. “We were just chilling and talking.” But when Duran and his brother returned from a short swim, something was wrong.
“We came back — 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 ask, like, What happened?” Duran said. “He said, ‘Well, I don’t know. He was just perfectly fine swimming, and all of a sudden he was just, like, face down in the water.”
Efforts were made to revive the man. “He was performing CPR trying to, you know, bring back the guy. But it wasn’t working. That was going on for like 10 minutes,” Duran recalled. “He’s like, ‘Okay, one of you guys has to help me take him to the shade.”
Police was called. “The guy was… just lying on the ground completely unconscious, you know, just throwing up foam and blood,” he added.