After a few days of the search, the Coast Guard has to stop it as they were supposed to prepare for the upcoming hurricane when things might go out of their hands. The crew was certain that if Hannah drowned, her body will turn up on the shore sometime.
Her friends had a different theory about her being on any boat heading to St. Croix, Puerto Rico, or Miami and as she’s fluent with Spanish, she might helping people who are harmed by the storm but they knew that the chances of something completely different happening to her were more.