Styrofoam Boat Found Adrift Off The Coast Off Orange Beach

Slowly through Perdido Pass, a fishing boat is hauling something in but on the end of this line is a mystery.
"We were just basically scouting for oil, scouting for injured wildlife," Captain Edward Sims is in the vessels of opportunity program for BP, "We saw it floating and thought it might actually be part of the rig that had washed ashore."
Then he says, he had another fear.. "We got a little closer to it thinking we might find a dead body when we noticed what it was. But as soon as we came up on it you could tell it was all homemade. You could see the homemade oars in it but no body, thankfully."
The boat is made of styrofoam, sheet metal and wood. "It could be from anywhere. Stuff runs around the loop current in the gulf for years." It was found 10 miles off shore of Gulf Shores...
Captain Sims says everything about this boat was meant to float, not for speed. It took three hours to tow the boat to shore.
Jeans, a shirt, a back pack and weathered ball cap lay along the side of the boat like someone just stripped down for a quick swim.
There are also signs who ever was on this boat planned to be here a while according to Sims. "If you looked around it there are several lures, there is actually a dead flying fish on the starboard side of the vessel. A few hooks back towards the stern, several bolts he could have been using for sinkers. There's also a water jug down there."
And then the inevitable question, what happened to the person on this boat? No one knows for sure. There was spanish and english labels on some of the clothes. There are many questions about who was in this boat and where it was going but the truth is we may never know the answers.