A Navy sailor died in Hawaii while rescuing two children who were struggling to swim in the ocean, officials said Monday.

The sailor was identified by the Kauai Police Department as Master-at-Arms 1st Class Jeffrey Diaz, 47. His wife Keyonna Fairley told CBS affiliate HawaiiNewsNow that he was swimming in Kauai's Waiapua'a Bay with their two sons. The bay is on the grounds of the Pacific Missile Range Facility, where Diaz was stationed.

Diaz and the boys were in the water when the younger child was pulled out by a strong wave, Fairley told HawaiiNewsNow. Fairley told the affiliate that Diaz instructed the older child to swim back to shore, then went out to rescue his younger son.

"From what my son said, he was in the middle of the ocean and his dad was swimming with one arm trying t

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