NFL Players Missing Boat Recovered, One Survivor Found
By Leader Staff. Published on 03/02/2009 - 2:11pm
The U.S. Coast Guard now says that it found an overturned boat off Florida's Gulf Coast belonging to Oakland Raiders linebacker Victor "Marquis" Cooper. One survivor - former University of South Florida football player Nick Schuyler- was also found clinging to the vessel.
According to the Coast Guard, three other men are still missing - Cooper, Detroit Lions free agent Corey Smith, and former USF player William Bleakley.
Local television coverage showed Schuyler being helped out of a Coast Guard helicopter at Tampa General Hospital.
The four men were reported missing Sunday after failing to return at dusk Saturday as they had been expected to do. The Coast Guard has searched 16,000 square miles off Florida's Gulf Coast so far.

