KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - A tourist from North Carolina died following a snorkeling trip off the Florida Keys, sheriff’s officials said.
Erica Michelle Brown, 42, had been snorkeling with family and friends on a Fury Watersports boat on Sunday afternoon when she began signaling for help, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. They were near the Sand Key Lighthouse.
Someone on the boat began CPR and it was continued when she was transferred to a U.S. Coast Guard boat, which took Brown to shore. Paramedics then took her to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, the sheriff’s office said.
The sheriff’s office did not list a city in North Carolina where Brown lived.
An autopsy was performed and results are pending, the release said.
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