Emergency officials say a Swiss man has drowned and nine others survived after their boat capsized at night while trying to reach a holiday island off Ireland's southwest coast.
Coast Guard spokesman Danny Lynch says a 17-foot (5-meter) boat carrying 10 Swiss nationals was hit by a wave about 1:30 a.m. (0130 GMT) Friday as it was traveling to uninhabited Coney Island off the West Cork shoreline. The privately owned island has a single holiday home rented out to tourists _ though rarely in the chill of December.
Police say the boat is owned by a Swiss man who lives in West Cork. Lynch says one Swiss man swam ashore to nearby Long Island and raised the alarm with one of the island's two residents.
The victim has not been publicly identified.
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