HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Oct. 4 was Sherisse Domingo’s first time out to the Kaneohe Sandbar.

It was also the day she nearly died.

“The last thing I remembered was swallowing a bunch of water and I was getting very tired trying to keep myself up from the water,” Domingo said.

She was with her family and fiancé celebrating her aunty’s birthday when she was in the water and didn’t resurface.

Things quickly turned frantic. Nearby boaters Kiana Tacgere, Ahonui Kaho’opi’i, and Ezekiel Lee rushed over to pull her onto their boat, and they called 911.

Audio recordings from that call were played at a reunion of Domingo and her rescuers at Honolulu Hale Wednesday.

EMS dispatcher Samantha Taylor was heard coaching the good Samaritans through CPR.

“Keep going until she starts to wake up. Kee

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