18-year-old dies after “back flicking” into water at Splashmins

An 18-year-old male, identified only as ‘Navin’ from Corentyne, Berbice lost his life after he reportedly plunged into the water at Splashmins’ Fun Park, Linden-Soesdyke Highway on Sunday.
Details surrounding the incident are still unclear. However, an eyewitness told the Guyana Times that she was at the fun park with her family, who had arrived from the USA. The woman reported seeing Navin earlier, performing ‘stunts’ and then plugging into the water.
She explained that she left the area briefly and, upon returning, saw a large crowd gathered.

“When I came back, I saw a big crowd. Upon checking, I saw Navin lying motionless on the floor,” the woman recounted. Both she and her sister, who works in the medical field, rushed to assist, with her sister administering CPR.
“I believe he hit his head, but it didn’t seem like his neck was broken because it was not loose. But when I saw him, he was not breathing, so my sister started doing CPR, and that is when we started getting a pulse. While doing that, someone came and put him in a car and took him to the hospital, and then we heard he died,” she said.
The woman expressed her belief that had they been given more time to continue CPR, Navin might have survived.
“He was there on his own because when we were calling out to see who was with him, nobody knew him. I put his picture on Facebook to see if anyone knew him, and it worked. One of his family members reached out and said he was there alone, and they do not know when and why he went there alone,” she added.