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Elderly visitor dies after falling overboard vessel near Peter Island

The police are investigating an incident in which a an elderly visitor died while on a sailing excursion in the territory on Monday, February 7.

The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) said in a brief press statement this morning that the 75-year-old man was “retrieved unresponsive from the water near Peter Island yesterday and was subsequently pronounced dead”.

“Initial inquiries suggest that he fell overboard just after noon while sailing a Moorings yacht,” the RVIPF said.

The police have not released the man’s name nor have they provided any other details of the fatal incident.

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  1. ha says:

    arent we tired of hearing this every tourist season. we need to ban tourist over 65 from swimming in water deeper than 5 feet

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  2. PT09 says:

    @ha, What a stupid statement.

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  3. @ ha says:

    Why stop at banning tourists > 65 from swimming in water deeper than 5 feet? Since tourists seem to be the problem, why don’t we just ban them altogether, and try a GoFundMe approach to bring money into the territory instead? In fact, if you’re worried about deaths by drowning, why not stop all people from swimming anywhere in the Territory? You could apply for a trade license to be the swimming police….but they’d probably make you show that you need to know how to swim, a banned activity.

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