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AND WE'LL LET YOU KNOW THERE'S
ANY COOLER WEATHER ON THIS WAY.
NOW TO THAT BREAKING NEWS.
THE BODY OF A MISSING MAN
DISCOVERED AFTER A DEADLY
CANOEING ACCIDENT.
IT IS A DOUBLE TRAGEDY FOR A
LOCAL FAMILY AFTER THE CANOE
CARRYING FIVE PEOPLE SANK.
ONE WOMAN WAS FOUND DEAD LAST
NIGHT.
THE BODY OF ONE OF HER SONS
RECOVERED THIS AFTERNOON.
GREG FOX IS LIVE IN
MARION COUNTY.
DO WE KNOW HOW THE CANOE TIPPED
OVER?
WE DON'T KNOW HOW THE CANOE
TIPPED OVER YET.
THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE
OUT THAT.
BUT WE DO KNOW AND JUST LEARN
ADD WHILE AGO THEY HAVE
RECOVERED THE CANOE.
A 16 FOOT FIBERGLASS CANOE WITH
TWO BENCH SEATS.
THEY WERE USING IT FOR A BRIEF
JAUNT ON THE LAKE HERE IN THE
OCALA NATIONAL FOREST BUT THAT'S
WHEN IT TURNED INTO A TRAGEDY.
NOT SUPPOSED TO LOSE YOUR--
DON GIBSON, SR COULD HARDLY
TALK AS HE DESCRIBED WHAT
HAPPENED ON HALF MOON LAKE NEAR
SILVER SPRINGS.
AS AUTHORITIES SEARCHED THE LAKE
MONDAY, GIBSON DISCOVERED WHAT
HAPPENED.
SUNDAY NIGHT HIS GRANDSONS, TWO
GREAT GRANDDAUGHTERS AND THE
MOTHER OF THE TWO YOUNG MEN WERE
IN A CANOE THAT BEGAN TAKING ON
WATER AND TIPPED OVER.
A MAN IN A BOAT NEARBY HELPED
RESCUE DAVID GIBSON AND TWO
GIRLS, AGE FIVE AND SEVEN.
FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND THERE
WAS SOME GOOD SAMARITAN ACROSS
THE LAKE THAT HEARD YELLING AND
THEY COME OVER TO INVESTIGATE
WITH THEIR VESSEL AND WAS ABLE
TO ASSIST WITH THE RESCUE OF THE
INDIVIDUALS IN THE WATER.
HE ALSO PULLED THE GIRL'S
51-YEAR-OLD GRANDMOTHER LISA
GIBSON FROM THE LAKE BUT IT WAS
TOO LATE TO SAVE HER.
DAVID'S BROTHER, THE GIRL'S DAD,
IS TODD GIBSON.
HIS BODY WAS RECOVERED TODAY.
HIS FAMILY SAYS HE ACTED
HEROICALLY TO MAKE SURE HIS
DAUGHTERS STAYED AFLOAT UNTIL
RESCUE.
THEY KEPT HIM AFLOAT UNTIL
DAVID SWAM TO SHORE.
HE SAW THEM STRUGGLING AND WENT
BACK AND GOT THE TWO GIRLS FROM
HIM.
THAT'S THE LAST DAVID SAW OF
HIM.
HE WOULD HAVE FOUGHT WITH HIS
LAST BREATH.
AROUND 1:30 P.M. IN THE
AFTERNOON AUTHORITIES RETRIEVED
TODD GIBSON'S BODY FROM THE
LAKE.
AND JUST A SHORT WHILE AGO WE
RECEIVED PHOTOS OF TODD GIBSON'S
TWO DAUGHTERS, MACKENZIE AND
NIRA GIBSON.
BOTH WERE IN THE CANOE BUT
SURVIVED.
THE DIRT ROAD LEADS DOWN TO HALF
MOON LAKE AND VEHICLES HAVE BEEN
GOING IN AND OUT ALL DAY BUT
PRIMARILY THE VEHICLES ARE GOING
TO BE COMING OUT IN THE NEXT
WHILE AS THE FAMILY MEMBERS ARE
PROVIDED ALL THE INFORMATION
THAT FLORIDA FISH AND GAIL
OFFICERS AND THE SHERIFF'S
OFFICE HAVE REGARDING WHAT
HAPPENED WITH THIS CANOEING
ACCIDENT THAT ENDED WITH TWO
DEATHS.