A hunt is underway for a beloved Arizona mates who vanished portion kayaking successful Mexico connected Thanksgiving, section officials say.
Corey Allen and his wife Yeon-Su Kim were connected the h2o with their girl astir 1 p.m. erstwhile beardown winds picked up astatine Rocky Point, according to a GoFundMe leafage to assistance find the couple.
Allen brought his girl to the formation shore, and past went backmost for his wife, fundraising organizer Lisa Aumack said.
“The beardown winds and currents made their instrumentality to enactment impossible, and neither they nor their kayaks person been recovered arsenic of Sunday morning,” the posted stated.
Funds raised by the campaign, which a GoFundMe spokesperson said was verified, volition spell toward the hunt effort.
Local authorities confirmed in a tweet a multi-agency effort was launched to find Allen and Kim, including assistance from the country’s Navy. Volunteers person besides pitched successful to assistance successful the hunt crossed air, onshore and sea, authorities said.
Puerto Peñasco, besides known arsenic Rocky Point, is simply a fashionable destination for Arizona residents. It’s a much than 5 hr thrust from Flagstaff, wherever the missing mates live.
Friends were holding retired anticipation the brace would beryllium recovered safe.
“Corey and Yeon-Su are invaluable members of the Flagstaff community,” person of 13 years Shelly Thomas told Fox 10. “They are astonishing friends and fantastic parents to 2 exceptional kids. We are praying that they are recovered live and capable to beryllium brought backmost to their kids who emotion them and beryllium connected them.”
Allen is simply a existent property agent; Kim is simply a prof astatine Northern Arizona University.
“They are conscionable the nicest family. I mean, I cognize you interrogation radical and radical archer you that, but they truly are,” person Bryn DeFusco told AZ Family.
“They are truthful beauteous and lukewarm and engaging.”