Early Saturday evening in Cocoa Beach, a 45-year-old Indiana man drowned in the surf just south of Minutemen Causeway as he tried to help a person in his group who appeared to be struggling to swim.

The tug Medina of Captain Barker's fleet has departed for Bayfield and Ashland with the dredge Menominee and two scows in tow. The tug Maud S., accompanied the outfit as far as Sand Island.