Slezak, who was the baseball coach at Semmes Middle School, and Wooley, a Vietnam Veteran, husband and grandfather, both found dead just south of Dauphin Island over the weekend. Family friend of the Slezaks, Kennedie OIson, told me she is holding tight to the memories of the father and son.

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

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 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.

In a devastating update on Sunday, December 2, 2024, the U.S. Coast Guard announced they were suspending the active search for Hunter Slezak (7), after recovering the bodies of two missing boaters.

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 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 search for five people believed to be aboard a fishing vessel that capsized in rough seas in the Gulf of Alaska has been suspended, the Coast Guard said Monday.