Direct deaths
1
Direct injuries
0
Property damage
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Area
Brevard
Event narrative (NOAA)
A 32-year-old male from Fellsmere drowned while rescuing his younger cousin from a rip current north of the Sebastian Inlet Jetty. He apparently went under after successfully pushing the younger male, who was uninjured, out of the rip current. The older male was pulled from the water by two surfers around 1750 EST on May 25 and taken to a trauma center, where he was later pronounced dead.
Other notable rip current events in Florida
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.