A British tourist has reportedly died on a Greek island in a freak accident while tying up a boat. The Mirror reports that the man was mooring his boat on the island of Nimos when it happened.
The boat captain, 30, was attempting to moor the Captain Denise to a rock at around midday on Tuesday when he slipped and fell. He was reportedly knocked unconscious before being dragged out of the sea by his three passengers.
A rescue boat was sent to the scene and the man was taken to the nearby island of Symi to be treated in a medical centre. Despite the efforts of medics, he died while they were preparing to transfer him to a larger hospital, according to local media reports.
Coastguards then returned to Captain Denise to help bring the boat and its remaining passengers to port in Symi, where the boat is now anchored. The remaining three passengers were not injured during the incident and Symi port authorities have launched a routine investigation into the death.
The Briton's body has been transferred to the island of Rhodes so that an autopsy can be carried out. On Wednesday, another holidaymaker in Greece miraculously survived 18 hours adrift at sea by clinging to a small ball.
The ball was lost at sea by young boys on a beach an amazing 80 miles away. The tourist named as Ivan, 30, was swept out to sea by powerful currents off the coast of Kassandra in Greece.
Desperate friends watched helplessly from the beach and raised the alarm with the Greek coastguard, but Ivan was declared lost at sea. But in a bizarre twist of fate, he was saved when a child's ball floated toward him and he used it as a buoyancy aid. Ivan was rescued from the water on July 10 after 18 hours adrift, still clutching onto the ball.
