Boat Accidents and Disasters
Captain of the lift boat that overturned off Louisiana remembered as one of the best
![Portrait of Dan Copp](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.usatoday.com/gcdn/presto/2021/10/19/NCOU/14f05fb3-001a-493a-b70a-fc27954f02fb-Dan_Copp.jpg?crop=399,399,x0,y0&width=48&height=48&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
The Courier
![Capt. David Ledet](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.usatoday.com/gcdn/presto/2021/04/16/NCOU/de3f7d7d-cbe0-4815-9782-f3ba896a4b6d-David_Ledet.jpg?width=300&height=445&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
Tributes are pouring in for a Louisiana man who died after an oilfield boat capsized Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Lafourche Parish Coroner’s Office identified the man Thursday as 63-year-old David Ledet of Thibodaux, Louisiana. He was the captain of the Seacor Power, a liftboat that overturned Tuesday in hurricane-force winds about 8 miles south of Port Fourchon.