nbc30.com - Education - Yale Graduate Student Missing = In Waters Off Puerto Rico

Student Tries To Help Another Swimmer = Back To=20 Shore

POSTED: 1:44 p.m. EST March 26, = 2003

UPDATED: 1:59 p.m. EST March 26, = 2003

NEW HAVEN,=20 Conn. -- A Yale graduate student is missing and presumed = dead in=20 the waters off San Juan, Puerto Rico.=20

Brandon Brei, 26, was presumed drowned after he tried = to save=20 another student who was swimming, the Yale Daily News = newspaper reported Tuesday.=20

Brei and nine other Yale students from the School of = Public=20 Health had gone swimming Saturday, according to Durland = Fish, an=20 epidemiology professor who led the student group. Brei was = trying to=20 help another swimmer make it back to shore when he went = under the=20 water and disappeared, Fish said.=20

The Coast Guard called off = its rescue=20 efforts Sunday afternoon.=20

The group was in Puerto Rico for a conference at the = Center=20 for Disease Control and Prevention's laboratory in San Juan, = Fish=20 said. Brei was there to present his doctoral thesis on Lyme = Disease.=20

Brei, was a student in the biological and biomedical = sciences=20 program. His family lives in Orange.=20

Public Health Dean Michael Merson sent an e-mail = Monday to=20 notify students in the epidemiology and public health = program.=20

Graduate School Dean Peter Salovey sent a message to = students=20 that Brei died a hero by trying to save another classmate.=20

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Yale Graduate Student Missing In Waters = Off=20 Puerto Rico

Student Tries To Help Another Swimmer = Back To=20 Shore