This sounds like something I would have done when I was young and stupid (as opposed to now, when I'm older and stupid). They say God protects drunks and fools, and I was definitely both when I did stuff like that.
Which one of us out here hasn’t done something stupid and foolhardy as teens - things that could have gotten us killed?
Prayers up for the family... it sucks losing folks you love, especially losing them to something so stupid.
Would you have tied the car to yourself? Evidently one normally secures a rope between the cart and a pole on the dock. This guy tied the cart to himself. When they found his body this morning he was tied to the cart in thirty feet of water.