Navy investigating drowning death of research lab civilian

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Navy investigating drowning death of research lab civilian
By Geoff Ziezulewicz
May 20, 03:12 PM
A 45-Foot Motor Life Boat and crew from Coast Guard Station Gulfport, Miss., launch from the station docks in Gulfport, August 14, 2012. (Petty Officer 2nd Class Elizabeth H. Bordelon/Coast Guard)

A Naval Research Laboratory civilian drowned earlier this month while trying to recover a Navy vessel in Gulfport, Mississippi, according to officials and local media reports.

Wesley Goode, who worked for the laboratory’s ocean sciences division, was launching a 23-foot Neptune boat at a Gulfport boat launch on May 4 when the incident occurred, according to the Naval Safety Center and laboratory spokesman Greg Kuntz.

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