Coast Guard Divers Search Bahamas For Lynette Hooker After American Went Missing Two Months Ago: Reports

A squad of Coast Guard divers has continued their hunt for Lynette Hooker successful nan Bahamas aft nan American went missing 2 months agone connected a sailing travel pinch her husband, Brian Hooker.

The Michigan mates was walking connected a dinghy from Hope Town to Elbow Cay connected nan nighttime of April 4 to get backmost to their sailboat called nan “Soulmate” erstwhile Lynette fell overboard, Brian told investigators.

“Strong currents subsequently carried her away, and he mislaid show of her,” section constabulary said successful a connection astatine nan time. Brian has denied immoderate wrongdoing and has not been charged pinch a crime.

The Coast Guard, which is investigating Lynette’s disappearance, sent a dive squad connected Wednesday to comb done nan Sea of Abaco, westbound of Hope Town and Elbow Cay, according to reports from ABC News and CBS News.

New movements from nan Coast Guard successful nan hunt for Lynette followed reports that recovered GPS information from Brian’s physics devices did not lucifer what he told police.

Authorities will besides beryllium searching nan couple’s sailboat, which is reportedly docked successful Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for clues, a U.S. charismatic told Fox News Digital.

"Any benignant of integer devices that you tin take, immoderate machine systems that you tin extract, thing of that sort, will beryllium taken in," Nicole Parker, erstwhile FBI typical supplier and Fox News contributor, told nan outlet.

Soon aft Lynette’s disappearance, Brian was questioned by section constabulary but released days later.

Authorities probed Brian for much than 3 hours astir his narration pinch his wife, and whether he caused her harm, his lawyer Terrel Butler said astatine nan time, per NBC News.

Butler said successful a connection shared pinch The Independent shortly aft his merchandise that his “primary attraction remains nan hunt for his woman of 25 years.

“He is dedicating his afloat affectional and beingness power toward coordinating pinch applicable parties to find her.”

The Independent has reached retired to nan Coast Guard and Brian Hooker’s lawyer for comment.

Brian and Lynette had documented their adventures astatine oversea connected societal media nether nan sanction “Sailing Hookers.”

Lynette’s daughter, Karli Aylesworth, previously told NBC News that her mother and Brian person a “history of not getting along, particularly erstwhile they drink.”

The mates accused each different of battle successful 2015, according to a constabulary study from Kentwood, Michigan, antecedently reported on by NBC News. In 2024, the mates temporarily separated, according to CBS News.