High School student drowns while surfing near Hatteras, NC 0
What started as a weekend surfing trip to the Outer Banks ended tragically when a 15-year-old Pender County teen drowned Friday after his surfboard became entangled in a fishing pier.
The teenage boy, Craig Marshall, a student at Topsail High School in Hampstead, was surfing with a group of eight teenagers on Hatteras Island when the current dragged him into Avon Fishing Pier sometime around 11:30 a.m., said Bob Helle, the assistant chief with the Hatteras Island Rescue Squad.
Helle said the leash on Marshall’s surfboard – the cord that connects the surfer to his board – became tangled in the pylons, trapping him in the rough waters beneath the pier.
“Basically, his leash held him there underwater,” Helle said.
Rescuers had a difficult time reaching Marshall because of waves 8 to 10 feet high and a fast current, Helle said. Eventually, the surf board broke and Marshall’s body was recovered shortly before 1 p.m.
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