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    ‘They kept getting pushed offshore’

    Posted on July 20, 2022

    Ashley Taylor (right) and her boyfriend, Conard Coovert (left), were out on the Gulf until 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning and back on the water at 6:30 a.m., searching for her dad, Jimmie Taylor, and friends, Russ Davis and Troy Lindsey.

    If there is one thing Ashley Taylor knows about her father, Jimmie, it’s that he’s a creature of habit.

    During scallop season, she says he is out on the Gulf “every weekend” and always returns home between 5-6 p.m.

    So, when she realized late Saturday evening she still had not heard from him, she instantly knew something was wrong.

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