Tas: One man dead after boating accident

AAP General News (Australia)
04-18-2010
Tas: One man dead after boating accident

One man is dead and another is in hospital after a boating mishap in Tasmania.

Neither man was wearing a life jacket when their dinghy sank about 200 metres off Hobart's
Lauderdale Beach late yesterday.

Locals found one using an Esky to stay afloat .. and the other unconscious and face
down in the water.

He was taken to the Royal Hobart Hospital where he later died .. the other man's in
a stable condition.

The dinghy's been recovered by police as part of a coronial investigation.

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KEYWORD: DINGHY (HOBART)

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