A TEENAGER who travelled to the Lake District for a ‘weekend break in the sun’ died after his kayak overturned on Ullswater, an inquest heard.

Chad Edward Salisbury, 18, from Leyland, Lancashire, visited the area with a group of friends who had brought two kayaks with them that had been brought off Ebay two weeks before the camping trip.

The inquest heard that Mr Salisbury and his friend Glenn Baron took to the kayaks and paddled out into the 200ft deep lake while the rest of the group watched from the shore.

Neither was wearing a life jacket.

The hearing was told that within five minutes Mr Salisbury’s kayak had capsized some 80 metres from the shore.

“I saw him (Chad) resurface,” said Mr Baron. “I went over to try and help.

"He was swimming back towards the shore. He suddenly went under.”

Mr Baron said he put his paddle in the water for Mr Salisbury to grab but after nothing happened he sprinted back to the shore in his kayak where holidaymakers and other people in the group helped with the rescue mission.

The inquest was told that it was was busy at the lake as a triathlon was due to take place the following day and lots of people were already there.

Police and members of the public joined in the search along with the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team, which used its rescue boat, along with craft from Outward Bound and the Lake District National Park Authority.

Andrew Adamson from the North West Under Water Search Unit located Mr Salisbury’s body around midnight on July 25.

Pathologist Dr Mary Jenkins said that the cause of death was drowning.

Recording a verdict of accidental death, Ian Smith, the Coroner Coroner for South and East Cumbria, said: “People who do go into the water ought to wear a life jacket- other people who hear about this will hopefully think about wearing one.”