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yepOriginally Posted by an dee 51o
RIP
Originally Posted by Rightguard
if they have life jackets on i think they are okay
[h2]Schuyler: 'Marquis Cooper, Corey Smith Left Life Jackets, Drifted Out to Sea'[/h2]
Posted Mar 3rd 2009 5:50 PM by Shane Bacon (RSS feed)
Filed Under: NFL Rumors, NFL
Just minutes after the U.S. Coast Guard announced it would be suspending the search for three missing men -- including NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith -- in the Gulf of Mexico, the lone survivor, Nick Schuyler has allegedly told investigators a bizarre story about what occurred.
According to Schuyler, the man found clinging to the fishing boat on Monday, Cooper and Smith, gave up hope.
"We were told that Nick said the two NFL players took their life jackets off and drifted out to sea," said Bob Bleakley, whose son Will, 25, is also still missing.
Nick said that two to four hours after the boat tipped over in rough waters, one of the two NFL players decided he'd had enough. A few hours later, the second one did the same thing. If that isn't enough, Schuyler said that Will Bleakley, who stayed hanging on the capsized boat with Nick, told him he saw a light in the distance and decided to try and swim for it.
"I think he was delusional to think he could swim someplace," Will's father said.
While this is the first thing Nick has been quoted as saying happened, one family member of the missing players isn't exactly sure how "together" he must be after such a traumatic experience.
Ray Sanchez, Cooper's cousin, said the Coast Guard told him the same thing, but cautioned against taking Schuyler's story as gospel at this point.
"We're not 100 percent sure where his head was at," Sanchez said. "He'd been through a lot."
The search ends at 6:30 PM ET on Tuesday.
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Originally Posted by TrillipinoTrapstar
So sad.
Originally Posted by MBen32
is anyone else trying to imagine or grasp what it had to have been like being stranded in the gulf of mexico in the middle of night?
Thinking about it just makes the story that much worse
Originally Posted by Goldmember
RIP
such a sad story