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Boat Accidents and Disasters

Captain of the lift boat that overturned off Louisiana remembered as one of the best

Portrait of Dan Copp Dan Copp
The Courier
Capt. David Ledet

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.