RTÉ News reports that a 94-year-old man has died in what the PSNI are calling a “tragic growing incident” after his boat capsized in Belfast Lough in Northern Ireland on Sunday (28 August).
Jim Allen, a long-standing member of East Belfast Yacht Club, had been with a friend on a yacht that launched from the club on Sunday afternoon when he made a Mayday call around 3pm reporting that the vessel was taking on water.
It’s understood that the yacht quickly capsized about 2.4km off Carrickfergus, near Greenland. Allen’s friend, a man in his 70s, survived the incident and was treated by emergency services at the scene.
RTÉ News has more on the story HERE.