CARPINTERIA The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department has identified the surfer who died Tuesday while surfing off Rincon Point near Carpinteria as 38-year-old Lauren Campbell, of Carpinteria.
Around 2 p.m. Tuesday, emergency personnel responded to the area for reports of an unconscious person on the beach. Mr. Campbell was pulled from the water and bystanders began CPR before paramedics took over and continued trying to revive Mr. Campbell, but he was declared dead at the scene, according to authorities.
The sheriff’s Coroner’s Bureau is investigating the cause and manner of death, said Raquel Zick, sheriff’s spokeswoman.
