Lynette Hooker has been missing since she went overboard on April 4.
The K-9 team from the U.S. Coast Guard will be on the ground in Hope Town on Wednesday morning, Advardo Dames, assistant commissioner of the Royal Bahamas Police, told ABC News.The video in the player above is from a previous report.
When the 55-year-old Michigan woman and her husband, Brian Hooker, departed Hope Town on the Abaco Islands for their yacht, Soulmate, in Elbow Cay, bad weather caused her to fall off the dinghy, her husband told authorities.
that he's staying in the Bahamas with a 'sole focus' of finding his wife, 'no matter how likely or unlikely that is.' He said he was planning 'to go back to the boat, and then hire or beg people to help me go find some areas to search.'
Brian Hooker's attorney did not allow him to answer questions about what happened the night his wife went overboard due to the pending investigation. When asked if there was anything he wishes he'd done differently, Brian Hooker was emotional, saying, 'I will always think there was something I could have done differently. My one job, my one job was to look out for her, and that has not happened. And I'm gonna keep looking out for her now, the best I can.'Woman disappeared in Bahamas over a week ago: See timeline of events
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