Final report released this week on the FLW boat accident that resulted drowning
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 5:51 am
Nik Kayler, the fishing tournament competitor tossed into Lake Okeechobee in January, drowned when a rogue wave swamped his boat and threw him overboard, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said in a final report obtained Wednesday by The Palm Beach Post
Partner Bill Kisiah himself was thrown into the frigid waters and tried to save Kayler but was forced to struggle back on board and hours later, staggered ashore, freezing and exhausted, the report said.
Six days earlier, at 7 a.m. Jan. 4, Kayler, of Apopka, and Kisiah, 51, from Slidell, La., who’d been randomly paired, had left a ramp at Okeechobee. It was the first day of the Fishing League Worldwide’s three-day Costa Series tournament.
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Partner Bill Kisiah himself was thrown into the frigid waters and tried to save Kayler but was forced to struggle back on board and hours later, staggered ashore, freezing and exhausted, the report said.
Six days earlier, at 7 a.m. Jan. 4, Kayler, of Apopka, and Kisiah, 51, from Slidell, La., who’d been randomly paired, had left a ramp at Okeechobee. It was the first day of the Fishing League Worldwide’s three-day Costa Series tournament.
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