The male surfer who was pulled from the water at Kealia on Thursday afternoon, given CPR by lifeguards and fire personnel and transported to Wilcox Memorial Hospital died, according to a statement from the Kaua‘i Police Department. A press release
The male surfer who was pulled from the water at Kealia on Thursday afternoon, given CPR by lifeguards and fire personnel and transported to Wilcox Memorial Hospital died, according to a statement from the Kaua‘i Police Department.
A press release identified the man as 30-year-old Lloyd Albinio, of Kapa‘a, and said his family members had been notified.
A witness who was at Kealia at the time of the incident but declined to be identified said yesterday the man was riding an 8- to 9-foot blue board and described the waves at Kealia as “semi-epic.”
Kaua‘i Fire Department Battalion Chief Shawn Hosaka said Thursday dispatch received a call at 3:21 p.m. that a male subject was found submerged in the water. When KFD personnel, responding in Engine 2 and Truck 2, arrived, they found a lifeguard already performing CPR, Hosaka said.
The apparent drowning — county officials had not announced an official cause of death yesterday — is the fifth on Kaua‘i in two months.
In October, four visitors drowned in two days at Queen’s Bath in Princeville, the secluded Hanakapi‘ai Beach on the North Shore and Kaua‘i Sands in Kapa‘a after the winter’s first large swell.
