One dead, three rescued after boat flips along NC’s Outer Banks, USCG says

One person was killed, and three others were left struggling in the water after a fishing boat flipped in Ocracoke Inlet off North Carolina, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

It happened around 10:45 a.m. Saturday, and a good Samaritan is credited with pulling the three survivors out of the inlet, the USCG told The Charlotte Observer.

The identity of the angler who died had not been released as of Sunday, April 5.

Investigators say the four people were out fishing when the 25-foot center-console boat overturned, throwing them into the water. All four of the boaters involved are adults, officials said.

The boat has been recovered, and the U.S. Coast Guard is working to determine what caused it to flip, officials said.

The name of the boater who rescued the three people has not been released.

Ocracoke Inlet is a treacherous mile-wide gap in the Outer Banks that separates Cape Hatteras National Seashore from Cape Lookout National Seashore, according to Outerbanks.com.

“The waters within the inlet are an ever-changing mixture of sandy shoals, deep channels and small, marshy islands or desolate sandbars that appear and reappear with every incoming tide,” the news site says.

The inlet is about a 195-mile drive southeast from downtown Raleigh.

This story was originally published April 5, 2026 at 11:28 AM with the headline "One dead, three rescued after boat flips along NC’s Outer Banks, USCG says."