Bethany Hamilton and her family are mourning the inability of her nephew.

Andrew Hamilton, the son of the surf icon's older brother Timothy Hamilton and wife Kyah Hamilton, has died, one week he modified into learned unconscious in a partially filled bathtub. He modified into 3 years primitive.

“Andrew Samuel Hamilton, born December Twenty sixth 2020, entered his shiny relaxation on Friday, October 17, 2024,” read a message posted on Timothy's Instagram Oct. 19, “succumbing to accidents sustained a week prior in a drowning accident, as at the least the supreme existence-saving interventions had been exhausted.”

Andrew is the 2d-youngest of six siblings. “Andrew's passing is mourned by me, his father, his mom Kyah, and all of our teens, Thomas, Joshua, Matthew, Noelle, and John,” Timothy wrote, “to boot to by his grandparents, his aunts, uncles, and cousins, and by his family in Christ, the congregation of Saint Matthew’s Lutheran Church, collectively alongside with her pastor William Pierce.”

The 38-one year-primitive mentioned the church chief's “steadfast prayers at Andrew’s bedside and preaching of God’s Phrases to our broken hearts has sustained our souls this past week.”

Timothy added, “It hurts terribly and we omit Andrew extra than phrases can recount. But we enact not mourn as people that include no hope. We include an even time in the optimistic hope of the glory of God, into whose name Andrew modified into baptized, whose treasured blood washed Andrew neat and made him a child and inheritor of heaven.”

Bethany, 34, also shared her be pleased tribute.

“The Lord has receive my sweet nephew Andrew into his stunning care,” the athlete wrote on her Instagram. “While my family and I’m going to omit him dearly, we have confidence that his joy is paunchy with Jesus.”

She persisted, “Right here’s a prayer of faith that modified into prayed by my brother, and our whole family, this closing week. This prayer paints so extremely what it’s to include faith. Faith is to have confidence that Gods will for our existence is bigger than our be pleased. Thank you enthusiastic in regards to the admire, prayers and enhance is this trying time.
Be blessed.”

Bethany, a mom of 4 who documented her skills surviving a 2003 shark attack that rate her her left arm in a memoir and the 2011 film Soul Surfer, had closing week issued a public plea to attain a scientific examiner on drowning accidents to look at out and abet Andrew after he modified into hospitalized in Oahu, Hawaii.

A fundraising page location up for the family had grand that on Oct 11, “Andrew came down with a fever and threw up. He modified into in the tub soaking in 6 inches of water and epsom salt; moral 15 feet from the kitchen and lounge.”

The message persisted, “He modified into learned unconscious—which is baffling as he's the strongest child of his 5 siblings at that age and an excellent swimmer, even in the start ocean. Chest compression started, he had a little heartbeat. He spent about a hours at Wilcox sanatorium previous to scientific evacuation to Oahu.”

The family later updated the page to masks that Andrew had suffered kidney wound, had swelling in his brain and modified into also on a ventilator.

Following his death, Bethany and Timothy's eldest brother Noah Hamilton, 42, also shared a tribute to the baby, in which he shared that he had long past browsing with him two days previous to his drowning accident.

“The exact solo time I ever received to play with him,” he wrote on Facebook. “I've performed alongside with his 4 older siblings. We had so grand fun. On our closing wave I threw him off the board and he swam to shore by the waves and unusual sucking him reduction to sea. I’m going to admire this memory.”

Noah persisted, “He modified into a exact hammer of a kid. We are able to by no intention know how he received into concern in a bath with 6in of water. But what we enact know is that he’s in heaven singing with the Angels, resting in his shiny father’s hands of admire. I admire you Andrew.”