2 Dead In North Shore Water Incidents: Essex DA's Office

Updated 5 p.m.

ROCKPORT, MA — Two people are dead in separate incidents involving the waters off the North Shore with the Essex County District Attorney's Office saying that a woman died after running into trouble while SCUBA diving in Rockport this weekend and a man's body was found early Tuesday morning in ankle-deep water in Salisbury.

The DA's Office said Sara Elizabeth Nivens, 40, of South Boston encountered difficulty while SCUBA diving near the Dry Salvages rock mount about two miles off Rockport this weekend. She was brought back onto the charter boat where she was diving with her father and taken to Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester.

She was then taken to Lahey Medical Center in Burlington where she was pronounced dead on Monday.

That incident is being investigated by the Essex County District Attorney's Office State Police Detective Unit, the Massachusetts State Police Dive Team and the Rockport Police Department.

The DA's Office said a man's body also washed ashore in Salisbury early Tuesday morning and was found by a person walking along the beach at Ocean Front Drive at about 1 a.m.

A responding police officer pulled the body from the ankle-deep water and the man was pronounced dead on scene.

He was later identified as Xhoi Docnoka, 28, of Seabrook, N.H.

That death is being investigated by the Essex County District Attorney's Office State Police Detective Unit and the Salisbury Police Department.