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Kayak Fishing Zone => Safety First => Topic started by: E Kayaker on April 09, 2017, 07:21:26 PM

Title: Missing Kayaker
Post by: E Kayaker on April 09, 2017, 07:21:26 PM
One of the great things about this group is safety first.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- Coast Guard crews are searching for a missing kayaker whose empty craft was last seen Saturday morning off southwest Florida.

Coast Guard officials were alerted by local deputies Saturday morning that 29-year-old Justin Furman had gone missing after camping at Punta Rassa with a group of friends.

He left the group Friday night to kayak and fish along the beach.

Friends said he didn't have a life jacket, cell phone or emergency equipment in the kayak.

The News-Press reports his kayak was found empty Saturday morning.
Title: Re: Missing Kayaker
Post by: SOMA on April 09, 2017, 08:57:06 PM
"Friends said he didn't have a life jacket, cell phone or emergency equipment in the kayak."
Another win for Charles Darwin.
Title: Re: Missing Kayaker
Post by: Dannarchy on April 12, 2017, 08:46:05 AM
"People that were camping with him but didn't really like him said he didn't have a life jacket, cell phone or emergency equipment in the kayak."

Fixed it.
Title: Re: Missing Kayaker
Post by: Bulldog---Alex on April 12, 2017, 12:42:10 PM
RIP. A bad choice that cost him his life and I am sure , emotional stress for his family.  :smt009
Title: Re: Missing Kayaker
Post by: eelkram on April 12, 2017, 02:13:04 PM
Better check his ex-gf's pocket for the drain plug
Title: Re: Missing Kayaker
Post by: Sailfish on April 12, 2017, 02:34:04 PM
RIP my fellow kayaker.
Title: Re: Missing Kayaker
Post by: krusty on April 12, 2017, 07:13:02 PM
Better check his ex-gf's pocket for the drain plug

 :smt044
Title: Re: Missing Kayaker
Post by: Tote on April 12, 2017, 09:06:30 PM
I haven't seen anything that definitively shows he dead.
Keeping my fingers crossed, even though he did everything wrong.


ooops. RIP
Title: Re: Missing Kayaker
Post by: crash on April 12, 2017, 09:19:54 PM
I haven't seen anything that definitively shows he dead.
Keeping my fingers crossed, even though he did everything wrong.
His body was recovered.

http://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Search-on-for-kayaker-who-had-no-cell-phone-life-jacket-418766634.html