The Medical Examiner’s office has confirmed drowning as the cause of death for a 63-year-old woman and 5-year-old boy who were in a Kaaawa kayaking accident last week. The manner of death for both was classified as an accident.

Alaric Chiu, 5, and Maria Davis, 63, were both found unresponsive in the waters off a Kaaawa beach the morning of March 28 after their kayak flipped over. Paramedics took them to the hospital where they were pronounced dead.

Chiu, a kindergarten student at St. Andrew’s Schools, was on an excursion as part of the Mid-Pacific Institute’s spring break program. Davis, a staff member of the spring break program, had taken Chiu, along with two other boys, ages 6 and 9, aboard the kayak. The other two boys were not injured.

The Kaaawa stop and the kayak ride were not listed on the itinerary for the spring break camp that day.

Firefighters who responded did not see life jackets at the scene that day and could not confirm their presence. In Hawaii, children ages 12 and under are required to wear a U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jacket on vessels of all lengths on the water, according to the BoatUS Foundation. Federal law requires children under 13 on moving boats to wear a properly fitted life jacket.