Savannah Jane Grant, 27, went missing after a boating accident off North Carolina’s Outer Banks on October 9, 2021. She was camping on Portsmouth Island with her boyfriend, Jason Quickle, and a friend, John Pierson, when a sudden storm and strong currents capsized their canoe in the Ocracoke Inlet on a day the National Weather Service had warned of gale-force winds. A 911 call around 4:15 p.m. prompted a U.S. Coast Guard search covering more than 1,600 square nautical miles.

By the next morning Quickle had been rescued nearly three miles offshore and airlifted to hospital; Pierson was found on Great Island after swimming to shore and reported last seeing Savannah in the early morning hours of October 10. Despite a 73-hour search, Savannah and the dog with the group, Poseidon, were never found and the Coast Guard suspended active rescue efforts. The Carteret County Sheriff’s Office classifies her as a missing person and investigators reported no evidence of foul play; the Wildlife Resources Commission closed its boating-accident probe. If anyone was on Portsmouth Island or near Ocracoke Inlet that day and saw anything relevant, please come forward with information.