Wakeboarder poor swimmer, not wearing life jacket.
A 29 year old man with average swimming skills drowned
Saturday while wakeboarding in Castaic
Lake.
Captain Ed Winter of the L.A. County Coroner Office said
that Omar Pinto, a resident of Sylmar, drowned while wakeboarding. He was not
wearing a life jacket.
“According to the reported information, he didn’t know how
to swim well,” Winter said.