A 73-year-old man died Wednesday while tethered aloft to a sailboat’s rigging at a slip in a Wilmington marina.
Firefighters called about 3:35 p.m. to Island Yacht Anchorage 2 in the 700 block of Shore Road found the man unconscious, harnessed high on the boat’s mast, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department and reports from the scene.
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While attempting to lower the man to the boat’s deck, firefighters determined he was dead, according to the LAFD’s Margaret Stewart, who initially said he appeared to have suffered a medical emergency.
His name was not immediately released.
–City News Service