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Article: Qld: American the latest in a string of tourist drowning deaths
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- February 24, 2003
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Qld: American the latest in a string of tourist drowning deaths
By Rosemary Desmond
BRISBANE, Feb 24 AAP - A 68-year-old American tourist has become
the latest in a string
of drowning fatalities involving tourists in Australia.
The man, from Florida, was believed to have suffered a heart attack
while snorkelling
with his wife during a trip to the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns yesterday
afternoon.
The couple had been with a party of divers and snorkellers at Briggs
Reef when the
woman found her husband floating unconscious around 2.30pm.
He was pulled from the water and rushed to a moored pontoon but
efforts to revive him failed.
Police said a post ...