Ice Bucket Challenge Activist Dies in Diving Accident
Corey Griffin, a venture capitalist and ex Bain Capital LLC manager, who raised more than $100,000 dollars for the ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)cause with the Ice Bucket Challenge, died in a diving accident off the Nantucket Harbor, Massachusetts, Sunday
Police confirmed that Griffin, 27, dove into the water from the "Juice Guys" building on Straight Wharf. He floated to the surface, then he sank. He did not come up again.
A lifeguard nearby dived after him and brought him up from the bottom after several attempts, said the police. He was taken to the Nantucket Cottage Hospital after resuscitation attempts failed.. He was pronounced dead at 3 a.m, according to the Boston Globe
He was a good friend of Pete Frates, the ex Boston College basketball captain and ALS patient and the driving force behind the Ice Bucket Challenge.Griffin was in Nantucket to raise funds for the ALS cause. His friend, Pete Frates' struggle with the neurodegenerative study drove him to work for the cause, according to friends and family.
"Team FrateTrain lost a good friend today, Corey Griffin," Frates posted on his Facebook account.
Griffin's father told the Boston Globe that just the day before he was euphoric about the money he had been able to raise for the cause. "He was the happiest guy in the world," Robert Griffin, said of his son "He called me last night and told me he was in paradise."
Griffin worked for New York-based finance firm Risk Assistance Network + Exchange (RANE). He graduated from Babson College and played hockey for Boston College before transferring to Babson.
