Explore our Calendar to find out what guided talks, hikes and other events are planned during your visit. Join us for a ranger-led program: Check our Ranger Programs page for the types of programs available in various areas of Cape Lookout National Seashore. Become a Junior Ranger - be sure to stop by a park visitor center or a cabin camp office to pick up your Junior Ranger booklet or begin your Junior Ranger Adventure. Hit the beach for shelling, swimming, and fishing. Park Service rangers are handling the fatality investigation in conjunction with the other involved agencies.Visit for a couple of hours, a half day, or all day-there's plenty to do and see. CPR was conducted for about an hour before medical direction called off efforts. They continued CPR until paramedics with the Harkers Island Fire Department and Beaufort Fire Department arrived on scene and took over. They responded via boat and ATV and were on-site within 15 minutes. Upon arrival, the rangers moved the victim further inland and began AED-assisted CPR. Park rangers were dispatched but were approximately 2 miles away. The victim was unresponsive, so the other two started CPR and dialed 911 at 4:47 p.m., the release added. The two remaining passengers were unable to move the victim. However, upon reaching the beach, one male in his mid-40s collapsed around the wave line. Three individuals were in the rented boat in the Atlantic Ocean south of Shackleford Banks on Sunday when a wave knocked them out of the craft, which remained upright. Conditions at the time of the accident were 7-to-9 foot swells, temperatures in the mid-70s with sporadic rain and winds out of the SSW at 8-16 mph, according to a release from the seashore.Īccording the release, while the accident happened outside the park boundaries, the three managed to make it to Shackleford Banks inside the seashore. One man died in a boating accident near Cape Lookout National Seashore/Kurt Repanshek fileĪ boating accident left one man dead at Cape Lookout National Seashore on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

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