Overview
- The man, identified as 48-year-old Matt Pawlowski, did not return from a paddleboarding trip that began Monday and was last seen about four miles east of Jupiter Beach on a 14-foot lime-green-and-yellow board.
- U.S. Coast Guard air and surface units, the cutter William Flores and multiple local law enforcement agencies are conducting coordinated grid and drift-pattern searches for Pawlowski.
- A Good Samaritan located a paddleboard matching the description roughly 10 miles offshore near Jupiter Island and turned it over to local police, but Pawlowski has not been found and the discovery is an investigatory lead rather than a resolution.
- Pawlowski is reported to be a vice president at NextEra Energy and his family has reported him missing and is awaiting updates from authorities; relatives have described the situation as deeply distressing.
- Search teams are using the last-known position and modeled ocean drift to guide operations and ask anyone with information to contact U.S. Coast Guard Sector Miami at 305-535-4472.