{"id":24325,"date":"2010-12-29T16:38:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T20:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/?p=24325"},"modified":"2010-12-30T07:39:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T11:39:53","slug":"breaking-news-drowning-at-titou-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/accidents-tragedy\/breaking-news-drowning-at-titou-gorge\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: St. Lucian drowning victim identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24348\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24348\" title=\"denrickroyer\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/denrickroyer-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/denrickroyer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/denrickroyer-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/denrickroyer.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denrick Royer assisted in searching for the body of the lost swimmer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Al Mourillon, who was at a hike at the Boiling Lake with at least four other companions, encountered difficulty when he swam up into the cave of the Titou Gorge in Laudat yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Police are currently investigating the incident. A coroner\u2019s inquest and subsequently a post mortem will be convened.<\/p>\n<p>A Laudat resident, who helped to pull the young man out of the water after he submerged, told Dominica News Online that he was on his way to take a bath in the river with a friend when they heard screams coming from a certain area of the river.<\/p>\n<p>Denrick Royer said: \u201cI hear a girl crying and saying [he drown, he drown!] \u2026 so she said, five of them went in the water, four came out and one stayed, and the one that stayed\u2026 he is a St Lucian he just came and visit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I take out my t-shirt and I jump in with a white man and two other Dominicans and we were looking. I asked where he drowned they said there {pointing to the ground} \u2026then I told them that this is the deepest part in Titou. Then I took out my life jacket,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cSo me, the white man, the other guy \u2026we went down over and over searching for the body but the water was so blue and dark we could see anything and then\u2026.[I heard I got the body] so we helped the white man bring it out, then we tried CPR on shore and then no pulse.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24350\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24350\" title=\"Dominica_Titou_Gorge_(Small)\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dominica_Titou_Gorge_Small-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dominica_Titou_Gorge_Small-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dominica_Titou_Gorge_Small-115x113.jpg 115w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dominica_Titou_Gorge_Small.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Titou Gorge. * Photo credit: thetravelwebsite.co.uk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Royer, the foreigner was also a doctor and pronounced the young man dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Reports are that the St Lucian national was advised to wear a life jacket before he went into the river, but refused and stated that he could swim. He initially did not want to swim up to the cave but was persuaded by his companions.<\/p>\n<p>Dominica News Online will bring more details as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Al Mourillon, who was at a hike at the Boiling Lake with at least four other companions, encountered difficulty when he swam up into the cave of the Titou Gorge in Laudat yesterday. Police are currently investigating the incident. 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