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An overturned fuel tanker has police turning around cars on the Pinellas County side of the Gandy Boulevard Bridge and asking drivers to avoid the South Tampa area. Part of the Selmon Expressway has also been closed.
Pinellas deputies learned that the man launched his paddleboard from Gandy Beach at around 12:45 p.m. with plans to paddle across Tampa Bay toward Picnic Island.
The body of Daniel Lukens, 60, was found floating in the water on the north side of the Gandy Bridge after he tried to paddleboard from Gandy beach to Picnic Island, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
Pinellas County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a body found floating in the water on the northside of Gandy Bridge about 2:32 Jan. 29.
More than 35,000 people drive across the Gandy Bridge connecting Pinellas County to Hillsborough County every day.