Another boating death in Lake Charles.

[Gerald]

Release Date: 06/01/2014

June 1, 2014 -- Search and rescue teams from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) and the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office (CPSO) recovered the body of a Lake Charles man at 2:25 a.m. this morning, June 1, from Lake Charles.

At 10:45 p.m. on May 31 search crews were notified about a man who fell overboard into Lake Charles and did not resurface. The search teams arrived on scene and learned that George Dixon Jr., 45, of Lake Charles was onboard a 35 foot Cabin Cruiser when he fell overboard without a personal flotation device while the vessel was drifting.

LDWF agents and CPSO deputies with the use of side scan sonar located and recovered the body of Dixon and turned his body over to the Calcasieu Parish Coroner's Office.

LDWF will be the leading investigating agency for this boating incident.

For more information, conrtact Adam Einck at aeinck@wlf.la.gov or 225-765-2465.

[BuckingFastard]

id like to know what caused him to not resurface. was he that wasted!?

[keakar]

Originally Posted by BuckingFastard

id like to know what caused him to not resurface. was he that wasted!?

that or he hit his head on the hull coming back up, that is quite common with sudden dunkings because you don't know where the boat is and its not natural to open your eyes under water and look around.

[BuckingFastard]

yea very true. guess we will know once they do the toxicology.

[Goooh]

My dad was in a boating accident when he was young. His uncle flipped the Jon boat they were in and some how broke his back, my dad had a vest on and his uncle didn't - he said his uncle was sinking like a brick and actually ripped my dad's shirt trying to hold on. My dad was maybe 7 years old, they searched for 2 weeks in the mermentau with no luck, then a family friend found him by accident while he was fishing... The body was hooked under a pallet he was fishing near.

It doesn't take much to sink. Everyone has played around in the water and inhaled air to make you rise, then exhaled until you sank to the bottom. Take a hard hit to knock out the wind, then fill your lungs back with water and you will go straight down even faster.