Brit schoolgirl, 13, drowned while snorkelling with dad at Florida theme park – as tributes pour in to ‘beautiful soul’ – The Sun

INVESTIGATIONS have been unable to determine how a 13-year-old girl drowned at a theme park in Florida.

Anna Beaumont, from St Fagans, Cardiff, tragically died on a family holiday while snorkelling at the Discovery Cove theme park in Orlando.

The schoolgirl was spotted “floating and unresponsive” in the natural-style pool on May 28 last year.

An inquest, held in Pontypridd, heard the teen had been snorkelling with her dad Peter.

He left her side to go and see her younger brother but he heard a lifeguard whistle around ten minutes later.

Anna was discovered in the water without her snorkel, and with blood and water in her mask.

She was rushed to Arnold Palmer Hospital but sadly did not regain consciousness.

Coroner Kerrie Burge said Anna died the following day, and a medical cause of death was given as immersion in water.

The inquest heard keen rower Anna was a “strong swimmer with no current health concerns.”

She had previously been diagnosed with childhood absence epilepsy in July 2016 after she was seizure free for three years.

The coroner said: “Whilst a small risk of seizures remained, Anna had not experienced any.

“There is no evidence to confirm how Anna came to be unresponsive in the water.

“She was not seen to have a seizure or to encounter any difficulties and there was no medical evidence of seizure activity during her time in hospital or at post mortem examination.”

The coroner concluded: “Anna died following immersion in water.

“It is not possible to establish, on the balance of probabilities, how Anna came to be in difficulties in the water.”

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