A man drowned Saturday morning in Orleans during an annual lifeguard tryouts, a fire official said.
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‘Jack Jakubek passed away during a lifeguard training exercise. He was taken in an ambulance to Cape Cod Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Jack Jakubek, of Newburgh, slipped beneath the surface at 8:49 a.m. and was found unconscious by an Orleans Fire Department diver in 10 to 15 feet of water about a half-hour later, officials from the Orleans fire department and Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office said.
A lifeguard drowned during a competition at an Orleans pond.
“It’s a true loss for us all, but I can say that we’re all better off for having had Jack in our lives and having known him”, Brian Tobin, his swim coach at SUNY Cortland said.
‘He was a very good high school swimmer, and over the course of his four years here at Cortland, he continued to improve, progress. “He had a tremendous work ethic”. “You don’t see a lot of guys in their early 20s who just know what they want so clearly”. He was planning to return to Cortland to be an assistant coach on the swim team following a stellar career in the pool.
“He was the teammate everyone wanted to have as a teammate”, the coach told the paper.
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Several rescue teams responded to the scene, including a dive team, Massachusetts State Police and the United States Coast Guard.
