A 71-year-old-man died and six others were rescued Tuesday from two boats off the coast of La Push, Clallam County, the Coast Guard reported.

It appears that at 9:47 a.m., the master of a recreational boat radioed Coast Guard Group/Air Station Port Angeles that the boat was taking on water, but was unable to give a location before the boat capsized, Lt. Eric Perdue, spokesman at Coast Guard Group/Air Station Port Angeles said. Several minutes later, charter fishing vessels the “Fury and the Ultimate”, radioed the Coast Guard that their crews pulled three men in life jackets from the water.

The Ultimate crew started resuscitation, but one man was unresponsive. A Canadian Coast Guard helicopter crew flew the man to Forks Municipal Airport, performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation along the way. However, he was pronounced dead at Forks Community Hospital, the Coast Guard said.

An HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from the Astoria Coast Guard station took the other two men, who were suffering from hypothermia, to the Forks airport. They were treated and discharged from Forks Community Hospital.

”We were not able to recover the boat, so we don’t know if it had a name or anything like that,” Perdue said. “There is no doubt that is the only way [the three men] were able to be pulled out of the water,” he added. Winds were about 15 mph, and “the seas were pretty choppy, but there was that high concentration of recreational boats out there.”

Shortly before one boat capsized, another began taking on water. At 8:56 a.m., the master of a 22-foot recreational boat, “My Wife”, told the Coast Guard his boat was taking on water 28 miles west of LaPush. None of the four people aboard — all unidentified by the Coast Guard — were injured, Perdue said.