Event narrative (NOAA)
At about 1530LST on May 29, lifeguards at Spessard Holland Beach in Melbourne Beach rescued a 53 year old man from a rip current and resuscitated him. The man was transported to a local hospital, where he died approximately two weeks later. The cause of death was drowning. At about the same time of the initial incident, another lifeguard rescued two swimmers caught in a nearby rip current and noticed a third person submerged. The body of the third victim, a 20 year old male from Kissimmee, was recovered a few hours later. An autopsy confirmed he died due to drowning.
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.