GRAND HAVEN -- A Benzie County man is dead after getting caught in a rip current in Lake Michigan while on vacation.
It happened around 3:00 p.m. Thursday near Grand Haven State Park.
76-year-old Richard Habermas of Lake Ann was swimming with his wife when he went under.
It took about ten minutes for a bystander to find Habermas and pull him out of the water. An off-duty nurse and two doctors performed CPR.
Habermas was pronounced dead at the hospital.
