Hawaii Fire Department personnel resumed the search Thursday for 33-year-old Amber Savant, who was swept out to sea Sunday while free diving near Kapoho Bay.
Hawaii Fire Department personnel resumed the search Thursday for 33-year-old Amber Savant, who was swept out to sea Sunday while free diving near Kapoho Bay.
No additional items belonging to Savant other than her speargun, fins, gloves, snorkel, mask, weight belt with a knife, and five pounds of dive weights have been recovered, according to Hawaii Fire Department officials. Crews on Thursday had turned up no sign of the woman despite a fourth day searching within the water, along the coast and from the air.
HFD Battalion Chief Jerry Lum said Thursday was the final day of searching for the Kona woman. The department normally searches for a missing person for three days, however, the search was extended at the request of Savant’s family.
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search for the Kona woman late Wednesday, officials said. Coast Guard assets searched approximately 4,516 square miles and deployed three self-locating datum marker buoys.
Savant, the owner of Alter Ego salon, is described as having blonde hair, being 5-feet 7-inches tall and weighing 140 pounds.
She was last seen when she and her diving companion encountered strong tides and currents that immediately swept her offshore during their first dive at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. She was wearing camouflage pants, a black tank top, dive weights and carrying a speargun.