NewsWhore
03-24-2008, 07:50 PM
A young missionary who defied the ban on swimming in the heavy surf last Thursday is listed as missing. The Civil Defense corps was not able to launch a search and rescue mission due to the strong wave activity in the Playa Grande area on the north coast. Shane Ruiz, a Freed-Hardeman University of Henderson, Tennessee who had traveled to the DR to participate in a Spring Break evangelical mission, drowned in the waters of Playa Grande beach on the North Coast when along with classmates he was relaxing at the beach after their final day of work. The authorities had banned swimming in North Coast beaches and had posted a red flag at the beach in caution of dangerous waves and currents and advised against bathing. Ruiz was from Olive Branch, Miss. And was a freshman mass media major.
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