A British boat captain has died in a freak accident while tying up his vessel on a Greek island.
The 30-year-old tourist was attempting to moor his boat, Captain Denise, to a rock on the island of Nimos around midday Tuesday when he tragically slipped and fell to his death.
The impact of hitting the rock knocked him unconscious before he was dragged out of the sea by his three passengers.
A rescue boat was dispatched after the passengers alerted the local coastguard and the man was taken to the nearby island of Symi where he was treated in the medical centre.
Medics provided first aid and were preparing to transfer him to a larger hospital when he died, local media reports.
Coastguards then returned to Captain Denise to help bring the boat and its remaining passengers to port in Symi, where the boat is now anchored.
The remaining three passengers were not injured during the incident and Symi port authorities have launched a routine investigation into the death.
The Briton's body has been transferred to the island of Rhodes so that an autopsy can be carried out.
On Wednesday, another holidaymaker in Greece miraculously survived 18 hours adrift at sea by clinging to a small ball.
The ball was lost at sea by young boys on a beach an amazing 80 miles away.
The tourist named as Ivan, 30, was swept out to sea by powerful currents off the coast of Kassandra in Greece.
Desperate friends watched helplessly from the beach and raised the alarm with the Greek coastguard but Ivan was declared lost at sea.
But in a bizarre twist of fate, he was saved when a child's ball floated toward him and he used it as a buoyancy aid.
Ivan was rescued from the water on 10th July after 18 hours adrift, still clutching onto the ball.
