In the third water-related fatality this month, a 78-year-old West Bay man found unresponsive in the sea off Cemetery Beach died over the weekend.
The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service said in a Tuesday press release that officers responded to a distress call in West Bay at about 8:15am on Sunday.
Beachgoers performed CPR on the man until responders arrived, police said.
A member of the public first noticed him unresponsive in the ocean, and people nearby pulled him ashore to render aid.
An attending doctor later pronounced the man dead after he was transported to the Cayman Islands Hospital.
Police did not release the name of the man, saying they were making inquiries into the circumstances of his death.
The two earlier water-related deaths involved visitors to the Cayman Islands.
On Sunday, 5 May, a 72-year-old woman from the United States died after getting into difficulty while snorkelling at Cemetery Beach.
Four days earlier, on 1 May, a 65-year-old man from New Zealand died after being discovered unresponsive while returning to shore from snorkelling off Seven Mile Beach with his family.
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