Body Recovered At NJ Beach ID'd As Missing Boater Derek Narby: State Police

The body recovered at Point Pleasant Beach has been identified as the 21-year-old missing boater lost in Manasquan Inlet after his fishing vessel capsized earlier this month, authorities said.

The New Jersey State Police has identified the body recovered from Point Pleasant Beach as Derek Narby, a missing boater.
Photo Credit: *NJSP/GoFundMe photo (inset)*

Jon Craig

09/27/2023 12:08 p.m.

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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