An American tourist drowned in southern waters on Friday. 46 year old Gemma Paybarah was traveling with her husband and they had rented a catamaran which they planned to use to hop across some of the smaller Cases and snorkel.
On Friday, they contracted tour guide Henry Tucker to take them snorkeling near Carriebow Caye in the South Water caye area.
Police told us he led a group of 8 on the snorkeling trip - but she disappeared. Police have the details:
ACP Joseph Myvette- Head of NCIB
"On Friday afternoon sometime around 3:30 pm a boat captain visited Placencia Police where he reported that earlier in the day he took out a group of eight tourists to do snorkeling near Caribou Caye. When they were ready to leave he discovered that a female tourist known as Gemma Paybarah, 46 years US national was missing from the group. When they commenced the tour she was, at the time accompanied by her husband and six other tourists. As a result, a search was conducted in 
the entire area however, they were unable to locate her. Sometime Saturday morning, shortly after 7:45 am a boat captain in the area, just South-West of Wewe Caye, discovered the body floating. As a result, he took the body on board his vessel where he headed to Placencia. A postmortem has since been conducted on the body, where she died from asphyxia as a result of inhalation of fluid, consistent with drowning."
Paybarah was from San Francisco, California and was the mother of two.
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