{"id":11240,"date":"2026-05-26T15:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=11240"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:14:21","slug":"husband-of-mom-who-vanished-in-bahamas-didnt-use-33k-thermal-boat-camera-to-search-for-her-friend-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=11240","title":{"rendered":"Husband of mom who vanished in Bahamas didn&#8217;t use $33K thermal boat camera to search for her, friend says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A friend of Brian Hooker says the husband of a missing American woman had a $33,000 high-tech thermal camera on his boat that night and never used it to search for her.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving shore at Hope Town in\u00a0the Bahamas\u00a0at around 7:30 p.m. on April 4, Brian Hooker told authorities that rough waters caused his wife to fall off their dinghy. <\/p>\n<p>Brian Hooker paddled to shore and arrived at Marsh Harbour around 4 a.m. on April 5, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The couple was headed back to their sailboat, which is\u00a0their full-time home in retirement, when Lynette apparently fell overboard.<\/p>\n<p>They frequently sail around the U.S. and Caribbean, according to their social media pages.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Danforth, who\u2019s friends with\u00a0the couple, told Fox News Digital that the couple\u2019s boat, Soulmate, contains a thermal camera that Brian Hooker could have used to help search for his wife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the neat features that they had on their boat that most boats don\u2019t have is called a FLIR system. And it\u2019s a forward-looking infrared. And what it is a camera system that\u2019s not only night vision, but it\u2019s also thermally operated, that it can pick up heat signatures and stuff,\u201d Danforth said.<\/p>\n<p>Danforth said he met the Hookers in 2023 while they were in\u00a0New Orleans, Louisiana, and recalled an interaction with Brian Hooker when he said the thermal camera system kept them safe.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A friend of Brian Hooker says the husband of a missing American woman had a $33,000 high-tech thermal camera on his boat that night and never used it to search for her. <span class=\"credit\">Facebook \/ Lynette Hooker<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Daniel Danforth, who\u2019s friends with\u00a0the couple, said that the couple\u2019s boat, Soulmate, contains a thermal camera that Brian Hooker could have used to help search for his wife. <span class=\"credit\">FOX News<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe said, well, \u2018don\u2019t worry, while we\u2019re on the dock, we\u2019re gonna be completely safe. This thing has auto-detect that you can set the temperature.\u2019 So, like he said that night, as an example, he set the temperatures on it to 86 degrees. Well, then you can see my wife walking down the dock, and the camera automatically started tracking her going back to our boat, just because it was strictly off the heat signature,\u201d Danforth said.<\/p>\n<p>Danforth, who lives on a sailboat with his wife, said the camera system \u201cwould have been my first choice, like if I was trying to rescue somebody<em>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a text message sent to Danforth on April 6, Brian Hooker said Lynette \u201cswam towards the sailboat\u201d after she fell off.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cOne of the neat features that they had on their boat that most boats don\u2019t have is called a FLIR system. And it\u2019s a forward-looking infrared. And what it is a camera system that\u2019s not only night vision, but it\u2019s also thermally operated, that it can pick up heat signatures and stuff,\u201d Danforth said. <span class=\"credit\">Matt Symons for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The couple was headed back to their sailboat, which is\u00a0their full-time home in retirement, when Lynette apparently fell overboard.  <span class=\"credit\">Facebook \/ Lynette Hooker<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Danforth said he told the\u00a0Coast Guard\u00a0about the thermal camera in early May, before the Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) seized Soulmate sometime between May 8 and 10. The Coast Guard has opened an active criminal investigation into Lynette Hooker\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told them about it, and they were very interested. That was the first they had heard about that system being on the boat. And so they told me that they were going to file for a warrant of seizure for that because it has a serial number,\u201d Danforth said, adding they might be able to recover data from the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Hooker\u00a0left the island for the U.S.\u00a0to tend to his ill mother, his Bahamian attorney previously said after he was in police custody for five days. He hasn\u2019t been charged with a crime.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Brian and Lynette Hooker are smiling together on a sunny day. <span class=\"credit\">Facebook \/ Lynette Hooker<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The Coast Guard has opened an active criminal investigation into Lynette Hooker\u2019s disappearance. <span class=\"credit\">Facebook \/ Lynette Hooker<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>This is the boat owned by Brian and Lynette Hooker. <span class=\"credit\">Matt Symons for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His\u00a0Michigan-based attorney\u00a0previously asked Americans to give him the benefit of the doubt in an interview with ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would ask those watching to treat him the way you would want to be treated, to give him the benefit of the doubt, and to consider that not all of us, nor you, considering your own relationships, the way you speak to one another, we all handle things in different ways,\u201d Crystal Marie Hauser said.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital has reached out to Hooker\u2019s attorney and the\u00a0Coast Guard for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; 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