One person has died after a double-decker tourist boat started to sink near Blue Lagoon Island in the Bahamas on Tuesday 14th November, 2023, according to reports.



A 74-year-old Colorado woman was killed, and two other people have been hospitalised after choppy waters started sinking the large boat carrying more than 100 people.



Just before 11am on Tuesday, the Royal Bahamas Police Force was notified of a distressed double-deck passenger boat shuttling tourists from Paradise Island to Blue Lagoon Island, according to a press release obtained by NBC.



While the police and marine support units helped rescue the passengers from the sinking vessel, they found an “unresponsive” woman, who was retrieved from the water, and CPR was performed, the release reportedly continued.



The publicly unidentified woman was taken to Paradise Island Dock, where emergency responders found “no signs of life.”



Chief Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings told The Associated Press that the woman, from Broomfield, Colorado, was on a five-day vacation with her family when disaster struck the catamaran.



Local newspaper, the Nassau Guardian, said they arrived at the scene once passengers were on shore to find that “the woman’s covered body was lying on the vessel that was used for the rescue, and her husband was crouched over her with his head down caressing her.”