BRUNSWICK COUNTY, N.C. -- Two people drowned at two different Brunswick County beaches Saturday afternoon.

• Twenty-year-old Patryck Bass of Charlotte was pulled from Holden Beach.
• A man around 40 years old was also pulled from Sunset Beach.
• Both happened in the afternoon.

Emergency responders were called to the 400 block of Ocean Beach Blvd. West in Holden Beach just after 2:15 p.m. for a reported drowning.

Twenty-year-old Patryck Bass, of Charlotte, was pulled from the water by a surfer after being caught in a rip current.

The incident happened a few hundred feet away from a fishing pier.

Responders performed CPR as they were taking Bass to the hospital but he was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Officials said another drowning happened earlier in the afternoon at Sunset Beach.

A man around the age of 40 died while he was trying to help someone else.

The person he was trying to save is believed to be fine.

Another person drowned at Wrightsville Beach.