The Bahamian authorities said they were searching for a Michigan woman who fell overboard on Saturday while boating with her husband, with whom she shared a pastime of documenting their nautical adventures on social media.
The woman, Lynette Hooker, 55, of Onsted, Mich., was still missing as of Tuesday, according to U.S. and Bahamian officials.
She and her husband, Brian Hooker, had given themselves the moniker the Sailing Hookers on social media, where they last posted a video on Friday.
The Hope Town Volunteer Fire and Rescue organization identified Ms. Hooker as the missing boater to CNN and CBS News.
It directed questions about the names of the people who were involved and the search operation to the Royal Bahamas Police Force, which did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.
In an earlier news release, the police said an American man had told the Bahamian authorities around 4 a.m. on Sunday that his wife was missing after she fell off an eight-foot, hard-bottom dinghy that they were traveling on at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday.
The couple was not named in the release, which said the husband had told the police that his wife had the boat’s keys on her when she went overboard, causing the boat’s engine to shut off. He lost sight of his wife after strong currents carried her away, the authorities said, adding that the husband had paddled the vessel for several hours until reaching shore.
A U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday that the government was aware of reports of a missing American near Elbow Cay in the Abacos in the Bahamas and was working with the Bahamian authorities to provide assistance. The official declined to comment further, citing privacy and other considerations.
On their YouTube channel, created in 2011, the husband and wife encouraged people to follow them as they sailed from Texas to Michigan. The couple chronicled encounters with dolphins, a cargo ship and a tropical storm on YouTube and Instagram, where on March 29 they posted a video of themselves contending with 30-knot wind gusts in the Bahamas.
In an Instagram post on Friday, the last one before Saturday’s mishap, the couple posted a photo of a small boat beached at low tide.
“Not going anywhere for a while?!” they wrote.
Neil Vigdor covers breaking news for The Times, with a focus on politics.
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