MIAMI – The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a Delray Beach woman who disappeared during a sailing trip near the Bahamas.
Isabella Hellmann was last seen about 8 p.m. Sunday, according to a Coast Guard news release.
The Coast Guard said Hellmann's husband, Lewis Bennett, was rescued from a life raft about 30 miles west of Cay Sal, Bahamas.
Bennett said he was on his 37-foot catamaran, "Surf into Summer," when it struck an unknown object, causing it to take on water. The 41-year-old man told the Coast Guard that he abandoned the catamaran and couldn't find his wife.
The catamaran was later found overturned in the Florida Straits.
Hellmann is a real estate agent at Signature International Real Estate in Delray Beach.
A Coast Guard news release said rescue crews have searched more than 3,400 square miles by air and boat as of Tuesday morning.