Rip Current — Coastal Palm Beach County, Florida
April 24, 2011 · NOAA Storm Events record
Direct deaths
1
Direct injuries
1
Property damage
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Area
Coastal Palm Beach County
Event narrative (NOAA)
A 78-year-old male Canadian tourist drowned as a result of rip currents at an unguarded beach in the 3100 Block of South Ocean Boulevard in Boca Raton, very close to the Palm Beach/Broward county line. The man was swimming with his girlfriend when she went out too far and got caught in a rip current. He rescued the woman, but had to be taken to the hospital and died the following evening. ||The woman made it to shore and was hospitalized with a minor heart attack.
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.