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Canadian visitor dies after fall from cliff on Chinaman’s Hat

 

 

The Medical Examiner’s Office said today that a 61-year-old Canadian visitor’s death from injuries sustained at Mokolii Island, commonly known as Chinaman’s Hat, due to an accidental fall.

Wayne Anderson of Calgary, Alberta, died Tuesday night of head injuries,  according to medical examiners.

Anderson and his wife were spending the summer in Hawaii and are repeat visitors to the islands.

Ocean Safety Division Operations Chief Jim Howe said Anderson’s wife informed lifeguards her husband was gone for a long time. A lifeguard paddled out to the island on a rescue board, climbed to the peak and spotted the man’s legs “sticking out of a bush,” Howe said.

Because the man was on the back (seaward) side of the island, he was not visible to lifeguards at Kualoa Beach Park.

 

 

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