Tributes Paid to Dublin-Born Ocean Swimmer Who Drowned in New Zealand

18th January 2021

MacDara Conroy

Kaikōura on New Zealand’s South Island, halfway between Christchurch and Wellington Credit: Clilly4/Wikimedia

Tributes have been paid to a Dublin-born woman who drowned off a coastal town on New Zealand’s South Island.

As Stuff reports, 56-year-old Eve Parkin was reported missing in South Bay off Kaikōura on Tuesday 12 January.

After a multi-agency search and rescue operation was launched, her body was found in the water the following morning.

Parkin was a keen ocean swimmer, who reportedly swam in Dublin Bay year-round in her youth.

After taking up sea swimming again nine years ago, she became a fixture in the water at Kaikōura and in competitions around her adopted country.

Stuff has more on the story HERE.

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