On the Big Island, a 27-year-old man is dead Sunday after jumping off a waterfall.

It happened around 6 a.m. Sunday at the falls along Old Mamalahoa Highway, just downstream of 12 Ton Bridge.

Fire officials said the man was with a group of friends when he leaped off the 85-foot waterfall.

Rescue crews found his body at the bottom of the pond.

Police identified the man as Andrew Wright of Hilo.