Sudden death at City fish market

Fisherfolk at the Bridgetown Fisheries Complex were thrown into a state of shock on Wednesday afternoon when a man died after allegedly experiencing a seizure and falling overboard.

Fishermen Kyle Elder and Miguel Davis’ jumped into the water  to retrieve the man but efforts to resuscitate him failed.

The deceased was known to the fisherfolk at the Princess Alice Highway complex.

On the verge of tears, fisherman Jeff Husbands said he was in disbelief that less than five minutes after helping the same man during a seizure, he was dead.

“We got him to sit up and we stayed there with him until he was coming around. He was fidgeting for a while. We spoke and he said his name and I thought he was good. I turned around to help a friend and he walked away.

“And then in less than five minutes he was gone. He was gone, there was no coming back,” Husbands told media representatives.

The fisherman for over 20 years, said he was accustomed to seeing the man moving around the complex.

“The fellas who were there said that he has seizures once in a while and then he comes out of it. But to see him there struggling, that really hurt,” Husbands said.

Captain William Moseley who was one of the last persons to see the man alive said, “I saw him walking and then I was not seeing him anymore.

“I saw him walk and come out where I was and I see he went on a boat. But then I was not seeing them anymore. I get up from off the boat where I was sitting, and when I look, the man overboard dead, overboard drowned.

“He is somebody that would come down in the mornings and shout the fellas and go in a boat and holler for the fellas and help offload the boats. But he was sickly man, he used to catch seizures,” Moseley said.

Elder told Barbados TODAY that he was shaken by the incident and could not find the words to relate what happened. (AH)