Man and 2 boys missing on jet ski

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South Lafourche Parish residents took to their own boats and joined a search effort into Sunday night for a man, his young son and a nephew who failed to return from a jet ski strip in waters near Fourchon.

Jeremy Duet left Pointe Fourchon with his son, 8-year-old Justin, and his cousin, 7-year-old Cullen St. Amant about 3 p.m. and relatives called authorities when they had not returned by about 5:30 p.m. The trio, on the black and green Kawasaki jet ski and apparently not in distress, were seen at about 4 p.m. passing a back-up barge, heading toward Bayou Lafourche from Fourchon.

Jerremy Duet, who is 38, was wearing a red life jacket and both boys wore blue.


“Community is overwhelmingly helping, so many people in their personal boats,” said Lindsay Duet at a little before 1 a.m. Monday. She has been asking people with camps around Fourchon and Golden Meadow to keep an eye out for signs of her family.

Word of the situation was spread through Sunday evening into the night on Facebook and people volunteered to use their personal vessels.

Search and Rescue Coordinator Christopher Hampton at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans said a helicopter is aiding the search effort, along with a boat from the Grand Isle station.


The Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and Port Fourchon Police remained on the water into the night as well.

The weather on Sunday into Monday morning was clear but winds were brisk at 10-15 mph, with two to three foot seas outside of protected waters, with a 4-second dominant wave period.

Hampton said searchers were looking intensively around Devil’s Bay and Bay Courant.


Anyone with information that could prove useful to searchers should call Coast Guard Sector New Orleans at (504) 365-2209 or any local law enforcement agency.

3 missing Lafourche natives