Rip Current · Puerto Rico

Rip Current May 4, 2022 · Culebra, Puerto Rico

Death

Injury

What the National Weather Service wrote

A 911 call alerted the police about a floating person in Flamenco Beach. The person was taken into an ambulance to a hospital, where the doctor confirmed the death by drowning.

The wider storm

The combination of a small northerly swell and choppy, wind-driven seas resulted in life-threatening rip currents across most of the north and east-facing beaches of the islands on the 4th of May.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1032574. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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