After days of search-and-rescue efforts, Yeon-Su Kim, an American who had been lost at sea in the Gulf of California along with her husband, has been confirmed dead, the president of Northern Arizona University said in a statement Sunday.
Relatives of the Arizona couple said Kim’s body was found Sunday afternoon by a local fishing boat near Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, family friend Lisa Aumack told The Washington Post.matching the description of the couple, who were reported missing on Thanksgiving, but they did not confirm it was Kim’s body.the executive director of the School of Forestry at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, went to Mexico for the holiday weekend with their teenage daughter, Aumack said.About 1 p.m.
That was the last time anyone saw Allen or Kim, Aumack said. Their daughter is still in Rocky Point, Aumack said.Twitter account Saturday afternoon and said it was coordinating the search of land, sea and air with the navy and municipal authorities. American tourists and locals with boats volunteered to look for the couple in the ocean, Aumack said. Shrimp boats were asked to search the ocean for the pair. People with ATVs offered to drive up and down the coast while scanning the sea, and volunteer pilots were flying above the Gulf of California to spot the missing Americans or the kayak.Aumack’s granddaughter and the couple’s daughter are best friends, Aumack said.
The university said in a statement: “Yeon-Su was an invaluable faculty member. Her accomplishments and contributions to her academic discipline, our university’s mission, and the broader community were many.”
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