Alexander Vincent Petrakopoulos, 28, of Bradenton, died May 29, days after he was pulled from the water of Sarasota Bay near Cortez.
On May 26, at about 8:45 p.m., Manatee County Emergency Medical Services technicians and Manatee County sheriff’s deputies responded to 911 calls about a man in the water near a vessel moored about half a mile south of Cortez.
The deputies pulled Petrakopoulos from the water and, according to an MCSO event chronology, he was taken to a Cortez dock and then by ambulance to a hospital for care.
Karen Bell, owner of AP Bell Fish Co. Inc., spoke about the incident at a June 5 meeting of the Florida Institute for Saltwater Heritage.
She said Petrakopoulus died at the hospital.
Bell also said Petrakopoulus had worked as a commercial fisherman in Cortez and had collected pay for his fish at Bell fish house.
— Robert Anderson