(LaFourche Parish, La.) The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents are investigating two weekend boating fatalities that took place in LaFourche Parish.

Around 11:40 p.m. Saturday, 5 year old Ethan Hancock of Houma was reported missing in the Intracoastal Waterway.

Agents arrived on scene and with the assistance of the LaFourche and Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Offices and the U.S. Coast Guard recovered his body at 7:30 a.m. Sunday.

Agents learned that Hancock and his father were out frogging in their 14 foot mudboat when they ran out of gas near Bourg.

They say the father then attempted to paddle across the Intracoastal Waterway when a tugboat pushing two 297 foot barges came up from behind.

The father and Hancock then entered the water with Hancock wearing a personal flotation device. The two got separated with the father able to swim away from the tugboat, but Hancock got sucked under the tugboat and didn’t resurface from under the tugboat until 7:30 a.m.

The second incident occurred around 1:15 a.m. Sunday when authorities say 44 year old Robert Sims of Metairie suffered serious head trauma after hitting his head on a piling near Grand Isle while boating.

Agents learned that Sims was a passenger on a 28 foot vessel travelling at a high rate of speed in the Caminada Pass in Grand Isle heading to Port Fourchon.

Sims was leaning out of the vessel as a lookout when his head struck a piling around 1 a.m.

Agents say they arrived on scene with LaFourche Emergency Medical Services within minutes of the incident, but Sims was already deceased.

LDWF will be the lead investigative agency for both boating fatalities.

Both bodies were turned over to the LaFourche Parish Coroner’s Office.