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(Tribune News Service) — One person was killed, and three others were left struggling in the water after a fishing boat flipped in Ocracoke Inlet off North Carolina, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
The incident happened around 10:45 a.m. Saturday, and a good Samaritan is credited with pulling the three survivors out of the inlet, the Coast Guard told The Charlotte Observer.
The identity of the angler who died had not been released.
Investigators say the four people were out fishing when the 25-foot center-console boat overturned, throwing them into the water. All four of the boaters involved are adults, officials said.
The boat has been recovered, and the U.S. Coast Guard is working to determine what caused it to flip, officials said.
The name of the boater who rescued the three people has not been released.
Ocracoke Inlet is a treacherous mile-wide gap in the Outer Banks that separates Cape Hatteras National Seashore from Cape Lookout National Seashore, according to Outerbanks.com.
“The waters within the inlet are an ever-changing mixture of sandy shoals, deep channels and small, marshy islands or desolate sandbars that appear and reappear with every incoming tide,” the news site says.
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