Florida man dies after getting knocked off boat, caught in propeller

A Florida man is dormant aft helium got caught successful a vessel propeller during a sportfishing travel with a person disconnected the Sunshine State's westbound coast.

The tragic incidental took spot astatine astir 11:40 a.m. connected Wednesday astir 2 miles northbound of the Dunedin Causeway successful the Intercoastal Waterway, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said.

Charles Barnes, 66, was retired sportfishing with his friend, William Coughenour, adjacent Three Rooker Island connected Coughenour's 17-foot Key West boat.

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The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office responded to a fatal h2o rescue telephone connected Wednesday aft a antheral was tally implicit by a vessel and caught successful its propeller. (Ron Buskirk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Barnes was reportedly sitting astatine the front of the boat connected apical of a cooler portion Coughenour was driving. 

When Coughenour took his manus disconnected the steering instrumentality to hole a sportfishing pole, the vessel "pulled a hard right" and sent some men flying into the water, the sheriff's bureau said.

While Coughenour was capable to aquatics backmost to the boat, Barnes ended up getting tally implicit by the vessel. He was pulled underwater aft his close limb got caught successful the motor's propellers.

Charles Barnes, 66, was pronounced dormant erstwhile Pinellas County archetypal responders arrived astatine the boat. (REUTERS)

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Coughenour, who flagged down different boaters for help, tried to get Barnes retired of the water, but was incapable to.

When archetypal responders arrived, Barnes was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

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"Through the course of the investigation, deputies determined thing suspicious was observed and impairment was not a origin successful the incident," the sheriff's bureau said.