Police have initiated a coroner’s inquest case after a Texas woman died after snorkeling along the Kohala Coast Sunday.
Police have initiated a coroner’s inquest case after a Texas woman died after snorkeling along the Kohala Coast Sunday.
South Kohala patrol officers responded to North Hawaii Community Hospital Sunday evening in response to an 8 p.m. call reporting the death of 71-year-old Sokoon Yu of Flower Mound, Texas.
Yu had been snorkeling with a tour group in waters fronting a resort when she became unresponsive at approximately 10 a.m. Sunday. Workers from the tour group pulled her from the water, performed cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and took her to shore. Fire Department personnel continued CPR and transported her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 7:55 p.m.
An autopsy will be conducted to determine the exact cause of death.