ORMOND BEACH -- Rip currents were blamed for a 55-year-old tourist's drowning Saturday, the Volusia County Beach Patrol said.
Philip Standley, 55, of Noblesville, Ind., was swimming in waist-deep water with his brother when they got caught in a rip current, Beach Patrol Capt. Scott Petersohn said of the 3 p.m. incident near the Granada Avenue Approach.
A lifeguard rescued him and broght him back to shore in the care of bystanders, because she had to go back out and save his brother, too. While she was rescuing the brother, Standley stopped breathing and was pronounced dead on arrival at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center in Daytona Beach.
Standley's death is the fourth drowning fatality in Volusia beaches so far this year.
In all, lifeguards made 30 rescues Saturday, including one in Ormond-by-the-Sea where they literally drove several miles to get to the swimmer because no lifeguards are posted up there, Petersohn said.
He said rip currents could be a problem Sunday as well.