Officials recently released an audio recording showing frantic calls from a vessel involved in the incident. nolan wells Mississippi Death Investigation. According to Wave3, a teenager made a call to Sea Tow, a private towing company, from a boat on Horn Island at around 4 p.m. on July 4.
Wells, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, was found dead in the water on the northwest tip of Horn Island on the morning of Monday, July 6. Wells disappeared on July 4 after sailing to the island with friends. this The search for the teen has been called off Passed by a body found Monday, July 6, park rangers.
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At first, people could hear commotion in the background as music played. Later, the Haitong dispatcher answered the call.
The teen can be heard saying on the phone: “Hey, we’re on the west end of the Horn and our bilge pump stopped working. We’re sinking. Can you guys come over here?”
The dispatcher asked how far the water had risen on the boat. “It’s coming up… we’re just sinking. I don’t know. But we’re sinking,” the teen responded.
“Is everyone on board healthy?” the dispatcher asked.
Listen to the call here: https://x.com/NateAdams5k/status/2081895496755351970?s=20
“Yeah, yeah, everybody’s on board,” the caller said.
The caller then provided the dispatcher with the GPS coordinates of the vessel, which was located near the northwest tip of Horn Island.
“What do you want to do? Do you want to be dragged back?” the dispatcher asked.
“I want this boat to be unsinkable and towed back, yeah,” the teen said. He asked that the boat be towed to the Bayou Fort dock and mentioned that there were about seven people on board.
The dispatcher then spoke to a captain who claimed he was already on the phone with one of the ship’s owners, a relative of the teen who called.
“Sounds like a bunch of kids on Horn Island,” the dispatcher told the captain. “He said the boat was sinking and he was on Horn Island… it’s unfortunate, he was just a kid… a lot of things happened… I guess they were all under 18… and he wanted you to go out and loosen the boat’s pumps and tow it in?”
The captain said the boat owner told him the teens “don’t need any help right now, but if things change he will call me back.”
Dispatchers attempted to transfer the teen to the captain, but the call appeared to be disconnected.
Sea Tow later said it did not ultimately tow the vessel, Wave3 reported.
Have Nolan Wells’ friends abandoned him?
Warren HudsonThe self-proclaimed “best friend” of Wells, who was with him on Horn Island before his death, told YouTuber and former police officer Brandon Tatum in an interview that they were dealing with an emergency on the ship and that Wells was willing to stay with him. a girl with him.
There was a problem with the ship, Hudson explained, and “the bilges couldn’t be pumped.”
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“So the bilge is basically a pump, and when water comes in, it releases water from the boat. So I opened the back hatch and the water was flowing onto the battery. That was obviously not good,” recalled Hudson.
“The water is almost over the transom, which is where your engine is, at the stern of the boat. So obviously we’re in an emergency situation. We’re trying to save the boat,” he continued.
“It’s not that we didn’t ask Nolan, or that we left Nolan. Nolan decided to stay on the island with the girl he was with. That girl was also a witness to all this,” he added.
Ben Crump previously announced that an independent autopsy commissioned by Wells’ family was inconclusive. An autopsy found the teen’s cause and manner of death were “undetermined” pending further investigation.
