An Erin moth­er be­lieves her 20-year-old son, Kevin Hart, drowned af­ter he was ac­ci­den­tal­ly flung off a boat on Fri­day. Sylvia Hart said she is just pray­ing that his body is found.

“They call my phone and all them tell me is, ‘Sylvia come down the beach now, Kevin now fling off the boat’. And from the time they tell me my child now fall off the boat I know my son dead be­cause my son can’t swim. He can’t swim. So I know my son died so I pray­ing I ask­ing God to just let me get the body self. Let me see him for the last,” she said.

The moth­er of six said she was told that Hart, his broth­er and cousin, had put on two big en­gines on a pirogue and went out to sea. The in­ci­dent oc­curred around 4 pm.

“They come up the riv­er with the boat and they head out and the boat had so much speed, the en­gine had so much speed that the per­son who was dri­ving the boat like he could not hold down the two big en­gine, the en­gine too big that he could not hold it down and every­body just pelt out the boat and the boat just re­main spin­ning in the wa­ter, spin­ning right around in the wa­ter.”

She said Hart’s cousin and broth­er made it to shore, but her son dis­ap­peared un­der the wa­ter.

“One went back and stop the boat from spin­ning and bring it to shore. But my son did not come back. Up to this time now he did not come back. Coast Guard out there look­ing for him, the po­lice and them, the he­li­copter fly­ing in the air. They send­ing a boat to look for him. Every­body search­ing for him but up to now he ain’t come back yet,” she said.

Hart, a Cepep work­er, says when she left her Are­na Vil­lage home on Fri­day her son was asleep.

“His fa­ther comes and call him and was car­ry­ing him down the road to go in the sea but he did not go with his fa­ther. He re­main down there with friends,” she said.

Hart, a fish­er­man has two chil­dren, ages three and one year old. Erin po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.