Sunday, May 09, 2010
Kayaker's Body Recovered
KENTUCKY...
Divers have retrieved the body of 18 year old John Tyler Pickerell of Pulaski County, the sixth person in the state to die as a result of last weekend's flooding. Pickerell had gone kayaking Wednesday on Lake Cumberland and had been missing since the kayak he and a friend were in capsized. The friend made it to shore, but Pickerell had last been seen swimming toward a cliff face. Search and rescue crews located his body on sonar off Needle Point. An autopsy confirmed drowning as the cause of death.
Divers have retrieved the body of 18 year old John Tyler Pickerell of Pulaski County, the sixth person in the state to die as a result of last weekend's flooding. Pickerell had gone kayaking Wednesday on Lake Cumberland and had been missing since the kayak he and a friend were in capsized. The friend made it to shore, but Pickerell had last been seen swimming toward a cliff face. Search and rescue crews located his body on sonar off Needle Point. An autopsy confirmed drowning as the cause of death.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 5:23 AM 
