Saturday, March 7, 2009

Tribute paid to 1 of 3 missing boaters (AP)

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission investigator George Wells, center, officer Rich Schefano, right, and Lt. Ed Prouty, right, examine Marquis Cooper's boat at the Bay Pines boat ramp Wednesday night, March 4, 2009 in St. Petersburg, Fla. NFL players Marquis Cooper, Corey Smith, and former University of South Florida football player Will Bleakley, have not been seen since they left to go fishing Saturday morning. A fourth man, Nick Schulyer, was rescued Monday clinging to an overturned boat. The Coast Guard suspended the search for the remaining fishermen on Tuesday.

A week after two NFL players and two of their friends sailed into the Gulf of Mexico on a fishing trip that turned disastrous, family, friends and the lone survivor paid tribute to one of the missing men. Several hundred people gathered at a Methodist church in Crystal River, a rural community north of Tampa, on Saturday afternoon to remember William Bleakley, a former University of South Florida...




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