POLIHALE - A 35-year-old visitor from Burbank, Calif. apparently drowned yesterday afternoon after he got in trouble while swimming off Polihale State Beach Park.

An autopsy will be performed to determined the cause of death.

Waimea Fire Capt. Dellick Numazawa said a Washington state man spotted the California man floating 50 to 75 yards off shore from the main pavilion at the park, donned a pair of fins, swam out from the beach and brought the California man back to shore.

A nurse from Colorado, beachgoers, emergency personnel from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, county firefighters from the Waimea Station and American Medical Response medical personnel attempted to revive the man at the beach. The man had no pulse when he was transported by ambulance to the Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 2: 40 p.m.

If the man did drown, it would be the second drowning off Kaua'i waters this year. On Jan. 14., the body of a 75-year-old Numila man was found floating in waters off Camp One in Wahiawa.