By Megan Huckaby
Enterprise-Journal
Divers recovered the body of a missing boater Sunday morning after an extensive four-day search near Fort Adams.
Officials said the body of Quinton Barrow, 21, of Fort Adams, surfaced overnight Saturday, and a Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks official spotted it when he arrived on the scene to resume the search early Sunday morning.
Barrow, was fishing with Morris “Bo” Nettles, 29, of Gloster, in some backwaters South of Fort Adams when their 14-foot V-nosed aluminum skiff with a 25-hp outboard motor began skidding, Pike County Civil Defense Director Richard Coghlan said.
The boat reportedly hit a submerged object and the men were thrown overboard.
The incident took place in a submerged ryegrass patch on the west side of Jackson Point Road half a mile south of Fort Adams.
The area had been flooded with 12 feet of water from swollen Mississippi and Buffalo rivers.
Both men were reported to be wearing rubber boots, which make it difficult to swim when they fill with water. Neither was wearing a life jacket.
Nettles was able to swim to shore and call for help.
Search and rescue teams and divers from multiple law enforcement and rescue agencies had been dragging and searching the water since Wednesday.
