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23/07/2012
Cork Man Dies During English Channel Swim
A 45-year-old Irishman has died 1km off the coast of France while attempting to swim the English Channel.
Paraic Casey from Co Cork was just 1.5km from Calais when he took ill at about 1.30am yesterday morning and, despite the best efforts of his support crew on an escort boat and French medical personnel, he died later in a French hospital.
Yesterday, Kevin Murphy of the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation (CSPF), which co-ordinates attempts to swim the English Channel, issued a statement in which the federation expressed its sympathies to Mr Casey’s wife, Riana Parsons.
Ms Parsons was among supporters on an escort boat accompanying Mr Casey and was present when he took ill and the emergency services were alerted.
“Paraic was an amazing, healthy, tough, loving husband, friend, brother, uncle, son, nephew and cousin whose recent passion for swimming brought him to great places,” said Ms Parsons. “I would like to thank everyone for their love and support.”
A postmortem is expected to be carried out later today in France.
(H/GK)
Paraic Casey from Co Cork was just 1.5km from Calais when he took ill at about 1.30am yesterday morning and, despite the best efforts of his support crew on an escort boat and French medical personnel, he died later in a French hospital.
Yesterday, Kevin Murphy of the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation (CSPF), which co-ordinates attempts to swim the English Channel, issued a statement in which the federation expressed its sympathies to Mr Casey’s wife, Riana Parsons.
Ms Parsons was among supporters on an escort boat accompanying Mr Casey and was present when he took ill and the emergency services were alerted.
“Paraic was an amazing, healthy, tough, loving husband, friend, brother, uncle, son, nephew and cousin whose recent passion for swimming brought him to great places,” said Ms Parsons. “I would like to thank everyone for their love and support.”
A postmortem is expected to be carried out later today in France.
(H/GK)
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