Sailor falls overboard and dies at hospital

MARINA DEL REY - A man pulled from the Marina del Rey breakwater after
falling off the side of a boat today died today at a hospital,
authorities said.

The man was reported in the water "where the ocean meets the marina' at
6:42 p.m., said Ed Pickett of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

He was in full cardiac arrest when lifeguards on a fire department boat
pulled him from the water, Pickett said. He was taken to Daniel Freeman
Marina Hospital where he died.

Several other sailors in the area were trying to help the man out of
the water when lifeguards arrived, Pickett said.

The man was the only passenger on the boat he fell from. It was not
clear how he went overboard, Pickett said.