A 17-year-old from Chesapeake, Virginia died after being buried in a hole under several feet of sand after parts of an adjacent dune apparently collapsed into the hole. The incident is under investigation.
A 17-year-old from Chesapeake, Virginia died Saturday after being buried in a hole under several feet of sand at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, the seashore said.
Family and friends looking for the teen found him trapped under sand, the seashore said, after parts of an adjacent dune apparently collapsed into the hole. It was just east of an off-road vehicle ramp in Frisco, N.C. in a back-dune area behind a main dune and couldn't be seen from the beachfront, the seashore pointed out.
Rangers responding to a 911 call and family members tried to pull the teen out, and the rangers performed CPR. Dare County Emergency Medical Services personnel and Hatteras Island Ocean Rescue staff helped to pull him out and with the CPR, but he couldn't be revived, the seashore said.
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