The United States Coast Guard announced on Sunday it would be suspending the search for a 7-year-old boy who went missing on Friday during a boating trip with two other passengers who were later found dead.

Authorities are desperately searching for a 7-year-old boy after his father and a family friend were found dead in a bay where the trio went boating near Dauphin Island in Alabama Friday. Little Hunter Slezak still hasn’t been recovered three days after he went out on his first shrimping trip on Pelican Bay with his dad and a friend on a 22-foot vessel,

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.

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.

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 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 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.

Image via Facebook Search and rescue crews are searching for a missing 7-year-old boy after finding the bodies of his father and a family friend. The three were boating near Dauphin Island in Alabama when their boat capsized.