The brother of the fisherman missing in Lake Okeechobee said his decade of service in the U.S. Marines included time as an instructor in water survival.
“I know what a human is capable of,” Anthony Llanos said Monday evening. That’s why he believes Nik Kayler still could be alive, five days after being thrown into the lake’s cold waters.
“I can’t rule it out,” Llanos said. “The chances are high that he’s not alive. And I can accept it. I can’t accept not finding him.”
As the search for Kayler, a 38-year-old husband and father, continued Monday on the vastness of the big lake, Bill Kisiah, his fishing partner, changed the photo on his Facebook page to that of a boater kneeling before a cross in front of his bow. On the side of his boat: “Prayers for Nik.”
