The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says 64-year-old Phillip Howard Taylor died Tuesday when the boat took a hard right turn and rolled over. Taylor and 50-year-old Raymond Allen fell into the water.
The Gainesville Sun reports the men shared a life jacket and used a cooler to stay afloat.
Wildlife agency spokeswoman Joy Hill says a man paddled a canoe to the site and told the men to hold onto his boat as he returned to shore. As they neared land, a pontoon boat arrived and the men were taken aboard. At that point Taylor was unresponsive and pronounced dead. Allen was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
