Vanessa Gonzalez WGNO News

4:46 p.m. CDT, March 29, 2011
NEW ORLEANS (Bywater)—

A mother holds on to memories and friends after learning the body of her 42-year-old son Jim Dugan may be trapped in debris under this dock at the Alvar Street Warf.

Eleanor Dugan remebers, "he was the proverbial knight in shinning armor, if you had a problem, Jimmy was there."

Equusearch Director Tim Miller who began searching yesterday says he's almost certain sonar images have captured Dugan's body.

"I truly believe that we have got a good picture of Mr. Dugan down there, but also in my experience, this is an impossible dive."

An impossible dive a separate team will attempt tomorrow.

The 42-year-old, who lives blocks away, went plummeted to his death one week today when he and a friend stood on a closed off, rotting dock. His friend made it out. Now others are not happy with how the NOPD handled the case.

Friend Kara Larson says, "It was primarily a land search to my understanding until the facebook group was created and there was a push to actually look where he was."

Marlon Defilo with the NOPD says, "we don't have the divers or the expertise to go into the Mississippi River so the notifications were made and unfortunately we've had similar incidents like this and we followed protocol."

As for Dugan's mother, she's pleased with how the search has gone.

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