Monday, May 25, 2015

1 MAN DIES IN BOATING ACCIDENT ON CHESAPEAKE BAY, MARYLAND




MONDAY, MAY 25, 2015

CHESAPEAKE BAY, MARYLAND
Authorities have identified a 37-year-old man who died in a boating accident on the Chesapeake Bay off Calvert County.

Maryland Natural Resources Police spokeswoman Candy Thomson says the man's name was Salvador Amilcay Santos. He lived in New Carrollton.

Santos was one of five people aboard a boat that began taking on water and capsized around 3 a.m. Sunday at the mouth of Fishing Creek in Chesapeake Beach. None of the other four was injured.

A bystander Good Samaritan pulled all five people from the water and began performing CPR on Santos. Firefighters took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The four others refused treatment on the scene, police said.

Authorities are still trying to determine whether there were life jackets aboard the vessel, as required by law, and whether any of the passengers were wearing them. 

The incident occurred at the mouth of Fishing Creek in Chesapeake Beach, in front of the popular Rod N Reel Restaurant in Calvert County. 

Investigators were at the scene conducting tests to try to determine what caused the boat’s failure. They also were interviewing the four other people who were on the boat, Thomson said. She said some are believed to be relatives of Santos, and all are from New Carrollton. 

The group had left to go fishing about 2 a.m., and the vessel was still close to shore, in about 32 feet of water, when the boat began to take on water, police said. When first responders got to the scene, the front of the boat was almost straight up, floating vertically, Thomson said.


He was the second person to die this year in a boating accident in Maryland waters.

Police are investigating the cause of the accident.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com