(CNN) -- One person died Friday after drowning in the water off the coast of Corpus Christi, Texas, as Hurricane Ike approached, authorities said.
Capt. Robert MacDonald of the Nueces County Sheriff's office said a 19-year-old man was swept out to sea after he and a friend went to the end of a 100-foot jetty to look at the waves generated by the storm.
One of those waves swept the man off the jetty and onto the rocks below, MacDonald said. Two bystanders tried to rescue the man but they were also pushed onto the rocks. One suffered serious injuries and was taken by helicopter to a hospital, the captain said.
The 19-year-old victim has been declared dead, MacDonald said, but the Coast Guard has not yet recovered his body.
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