A Florida fishing community is grieving the loss of 27-year-old Nicholas Knowlton, who died after a tragic boating accident in Punta Gorda, Charlotte County.
According to a news release from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), authorities responded to a crash on Saturday, Nov. 1, after a 22-foot vessel struck a rock jetty near Fisherman’s Village Marina around 9:07 p.m. The operator, later identified as Knowlton, was thrown from the boat.
Nearby good Samaritans and a Punta Gorda Police Department officer pulled him from the water and began lifesaving efforts, but he was later pronounced dead…