`Then I heard a scream`
(WorldNews New Zealand)

`This life jacket is annoying me,` Colin McCormick said to his partner Alison Kirkman. So he took it off. Moments later, he was dead. The events leading up to his death were detailed at the Rotorua Coroner`s Court on Thursday - one of two hearings at the court on drowning deaths at Rotorua`s Lake Rotoiti in 2017. READ MORE: *Police recover body of missing man at Lake Rotoiti