It was a deadly Labor Day holiday weekend on Lake Michigan, capped early Tuesday morning by a drowning about a mile off of 31st St. Beach.
The Coast Guard said a man and a woman jumped off a boat to go swimming. She got back in the boat, but the man disappeared under the water.Dave Benjamin, director of the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project, said there are a number of factors that play into drownings.
Benjamin said so far this year, 37 people have drowned in all of Lake Michigan, compared to 39 at the same time last year. But that number has been climbing rapidly. Earlier in the weekend a 27-year-old man swimming at the 49th Street Beach was pulled from the water and later died at University of Chicago Hospital.
"The startling statistic, about 66% of all fatal drowning victims knew how to swim," Benjamin said. "So that should be an alarm bell saying, hey, we're missing something here."
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