A U.S. Naval Academy midshipman died in Chile after he appeared to have lost his footing during a hike and then fell over a waterfall, officials said Monday.
Luke Gabriel Bird, 21, was hiking with a Chilean Naval Academy student near the Salto El Agua waterfall in Placilla, Chile, on Saturday morning when he “reportedly” stumbled and fell over the waterfall, The Naval Academy said.
“We are incredibly saddened by the tragic loss of Midshipman Luke Bird this weekend,” Vice Admiral Sean Buck, the Naval Academy’s superintendent, said in a statement.Bird is from New Braunfels, Texas, where he wrestled for three years in high school and served as the battalion commander of his school’s Marine Corps JROTC unit.
Travis Delgado, one of Bird’s friends and a fellow midshipman, said Bird was “unfathomably smart” and a “great man.”
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