Outer Banks drowning in Corolla. Thomas Harman, 16 years old, from Fuquay-Varina drowned Saturday June 28 while swimming in the ocean at Corolla at the North Carolina Outer Banks. There was a moderate threat of rip currents that had been posted for Saturday. Harmon was swimming with a group, all of who were helped out of the water, but Harman could not be located. His body was found two days later in the surf Monday morning about 10:00. It was near the same area that he had disappeared.