Two tourists spending the holidays in Belize met untimely deaths in our waters within hours of each other on Boxing Day.
The body of Paul Hooker, 54, of the U.S.A., awaits a post-mortem at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he apparently died trying to save a fellow tourist on Boxing Day morning.
Hooker was scuba diving with Pamela Hooker and Noah and Jessica Webster around 11:00 a.m. on December 26 when Pamela apparently began experiencing problems in the water.
Noah Webster, 31, a San Francisco engineer, told police that Hooker went to help Pamela, but began having trouble himself. Attempts to perform CPR were unsuccessful and Hooker was pronounced dead at noon at the Ambergris Hope Clinic.
Out West in Benque Viejo, British national Victoria Jane Harmer, 35, apparently drowned while cave tubing at Clarissa Falls Resort on the Calla Creek Road.
Canadian Carole Naher, 44, reported that around 1:00 p.m. on Friday she was part of a group of seven tourists, 5 women and 2 men from various countries, who went tubing on the Mopan River from San Jose Succotz to Calla Creek.
In the vicinity of Clarissa Falls, according to Naher, Harmer, whom she knows as “Vicky,” apparently fell off her tube after it overturned crossing a current.
Harmer did not respond to CPR and was pronounced dead on arrival at the San Ignacio Hospital. The body is scheduled to undergo a post-mortem.