According to police fell north man overboard from a boat Monday night, with 1:41 years old. The two lay long in the water before rescue arrived and upon arrival the hospital was Henriksen pronounced dead.
41-year-old, who has not been identified, escaped the accident without physical injuries, police told the newspaper Cayman Compass.
The two men must have lost control of the boat they were looking for, a speedboat at 34 feet with a 350 horsepower engine.
The boat continued on its own after they had fallen overboard and stopped first in a mangroves near the shore.
Wealth 2.2 billion
Henriksen had claimed Kapital a fortune of 2.2 billion and was with among Norway’s 100 richest. He lived for many years in Monaco, but traveled the world in private his plane.
The wealth he built up as investor, including in the oil service industry, and he was until last year the chairman of Norwegian Energy Company ( Noreco). He was also heavily involved in real estate.
Henriksen was known as a media-shy adventurer and philanthropist and founded including the charity Aqua Nirvana Foundation (ANF) which invested in technology to provide clean water to people in developing countries.
ANF has several projects in Kenya and has worked closely with one of Europe’s leading research center for sustainable water technology, Dutch Wetsus.
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– He came here more often. He kept house at The Ritz and I think that he planned to retire here. I am very sorry for what has happened, this was sad news, says the Norwegian businessman Andreas Ove Ugland to Cayman Compass.
Ugland has also settled in the tax haven where he claimed capital has all the 19,000 companies registered in Ugland House. According Ugland had Henriksen newly purchased boat he perished from.
The manager at The Ritz-Carlton, where Henriksen lived, describes the Norwegian billionaire as generous and colorful.
– He was a fun character with incredible energy. He was also very generous and gave money to local charity, he said.
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