A boater jumped in a lake to retrieve his boat that was floating away, then he drowned, Florida authorities said.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office identified him as 52-year-old Pierre Richard Plourde of Frostproof.
Plourde was spending Sunday, Sept. 14, with his family on Lake Clinch when he beached his boat in the sand and headed to a pavilion, Sheriff Grady Judd said…