Family and mates are mourning the deaths of a Washington state couple who died whereas snorkeling on journey in Hawaii.
The couple was found unresponsive by first responders near the north facet of Āhihi-Kīnaʻu Natural Area Reserve on Maui.
Family members acknowledged the couple on their verified GoFundMe internet web page as 25-year-old Ilya Tsaruk and 26-year-old Sophia Tsaruk. Sophia Tsaruk was pregnant and the couple moreover had an 18-month-old son who was not with them on the time of their deaths, in response to the GoFundMe internet web page.
Firefighters and ocean safety personnel responded to a report of swimmers in distress throughout the area on Sept. 14 merely after 12 p.m., in response to a launch from Maui County Fire.
Sophia Tsaruk was found unresponsive throughout the water about 100-150 yards from the shore, officers acknowledged. Emergency responders on a jet ski launched her to land for CPR, then went once more out to hunt for her husband.
Ilya Tsaruk was found “on the underside” of the ocean flooring and was moreover dropped at shore for CPR nonetheless every had been lastly pronounced ineffective on the scene, in response to the discharge.
Local NBC affiliate KING tales the couple lived in Snohomish, Washington, in response to public information. The two will possible be remembered in a celebration of life on Sept. 26 and a burial service Sept. 27 in Washington, in response to the GoFundMe.
Maui County Fire declined to comment when requested if police had been investigating the incident and the native police division did not immediately reply to TODAY.com’s request for comment.
In an interview with native info outlet KITV, relations acknowledged the Tsaruks traveled to Hawaii for a babymoon with two completely different {{couples}}, along with Ilya Tsaruk’s brother and his partner.
They decided to go snorkeling on the first full day of their journey and had been carrying full face snorkel masks on the time of the incident, family acknowledged.
“We don’t assume that she suffocated throughout the masks,” Ilya Tsaruk’s brother Anatoliy Tsaruk instructed KITV. “It might’ve merely carried out a job in scaring her to panic. Everything is just speculation at this degree.”
They acknowledged the surviving toddler is in good fingers collectively along with his family and that the youthful couple had been planning to name their unborn daughter Melody.
“They had been prepping the room, the new child room for her,” Taisiya Tsaruk instructed KITV. “They had been so excited for all instances and what it was going to ship for them.”