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On Tuesday, Sept. 26, the body was positively identified as Derek Narby of Brick Township, according to Detective I Jeffrey Lebron, a New Jersey State Police spokesman.
Troopers were dispatched to Channel Drive in Point Pleasant Beach at 3:05 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 23 on a report of an unidentified body found washed up onshore, the State Police said.
The cause of the incident remains under investigation and there is no additional information available at this time, Lebron said on Wednesday Sept. 27.
Narby was on the vessel with his father and brother, the Asbury Park Press reported. They were rescued.
Large waves that struck the vessel were whipped up by Hurricane Lee hundreds of miles off the coast, the U.S. Coast Guard said at the time.
More than $11,000 had been raised on a GoFundMe page for Narby's family as of Wednesday, Sept. 27.
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