YouTube fishing creator Mikey Rijavec found dead days after mayday call off Mexico coast

The assemblage of a California fisherman who gained popularity connected YouTube for his sportfishing videos was recovered disconnected the seashore of Mexico days aft helium made a mayday telephone and disappeared, his household said Sunday.

Mikey Rijavec, creator of the YouTube transmission SD Fish and Sips, was recovered dormant successful the h2o adjacent San Cristobal connected Sunday, his household wrote successful a GoFundMe post.

Rijavec had been sportfishing disconnected the seashore of Baja California connected Nov. 11 erstwhile helium issued a mayday telephone from his solo skiff astatine 3 p.m. section time, according to the page.

"As hard arsenic it is to judge this, we are grateful that it provides america immoderate closure," his household wrote. "As we statesman to process and bespeak connected what has happened implicit the past respective days, it is wide what was astatine the halfway of the hunt for Mikey: love."

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Mikey Rijavec, a fashionable YouTuber who made sportfishing videos, was recovered dormant aft a solo sportfishing travel someway went wrong. (Gregory Rijavec via GoFundMe)

The household said U.S. and Mexican authorities, on with the section sportfishing community, rallied to assistance successful the hunt for Rijavec. The U.S. Coast Guard said the Mexican Navy is handling the lawsuit since it is their country of responsibility. 

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Mexican Navy for comment, but person not yet heard back.

Mikey Rijavec's household said his "mission was to dispersed his affirmative vigor and marque each idiosyncratic helium came successful interaction with better." (Gregory Rijavec via GoFundMe)

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"Everyone poured everything into uncovering Mikey, due to the fact that whether they knew him oregon not, they knew a son, a brother, a friend, a fisherman, a chap quality needed help," the family’s station read. "Everyone has been highly selfless during this time, and selflessness is 1 of the top acts of love."

An aerial presumption of Mexico's Baja California. Mikey Rijavec assemblage was recovered disconnected the seashore of Mexico days aft helium made a mayday call. (Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images)

His household remembered him arsenic "mindful and contiguous each day," which allowed him to "live a longer beingness than tin beryllium measured connected a calendar."

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"His ngo was to dispersed his affirmative vigor and marque each idiosyncratic helium came successful interaction with better, and helium did," the station read. "Mikey prepared america to woody with this, and if we unrecorded by his illustration we volition not lone beryllium OK, we volition beryllium better."