Search and rescue efforts intensified on Monday in the hopes of finding 7-year-old Hunter Slezak. Reportedly, the state helicopter hovered above Dauphin Island while boats and sonar were used to scan the waters below.

MOBILE, Ala. ( WALA /Gray News) - The Coast Guard suspended its search for a 7-year-old boy who went missing after a boating accident in Alabama. The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office Flotilla however has continued searching for Hunter Slezak. Sheriff Paul Burch said deputies are using boats, ATVs and horses to find the boy.

The U.S. Coast Guard "indefinitely suspended" its search for 7-year-old Hunter Slezak who went missing days ago on a boating trip with his father and a family friend under still unclear circumstances.

The child, Hunter Slezak, is the only one still missing after Michael Slezak and Sam Wooley were found dead Saturday afternoon by a Coast Guard crew.

The search for a 7-year-old boater who vanished under mysterious circumstances off Alabama has been suspended by the U.S. Coast Guard, but his family has vowed to keep looking. USCG crews covered more than 2,042 square miles in the Gulf of Mexico but failed to find any sign of Hunter Slezak, according to a Dec. 1 news release.

The search for Hunter Slezak, 7, has been suspended after the bodies of his father and a family friend were recovered in Alabama the U.S. Coast Guard stated in a release

The Coast Guard recovered the bodies of two boaters off the Alabama coast but suspended the search for a missing 7-year-old boy after combing the area over the weekend

U.S. Coast Guard Mobile Sector suspends Search for 7-year-old boy in Dauphin Island boating accident

Suspending an active search for a missing child is an exceptionally difficult decision and is only made after the most exhaustive efforts have occurred,”