Desert island hunt for British jet skier

The wife of a British jet skier who went missing more than two months ago off the coast of Bali has said she is hopeful he may be alive and stranded on a desert island.

Jacqui Hoyland has vowed to "leave no stone unturned" as she uses her husband Jeremy's mobile phone records to trace his last journey. The 41-year-old made a number of calls for help after encountering mechanical problems and it is thought he may have got caught in a current and swept off course.

The area to be searched, based on the phone records, is different to the one scoured when he first disappeared on October 24.



Preparing to fly out to Bali, Mrs Hoyland, from Penistone, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, said: "Ultimately we have to find something because it's so difficult for us."

There are a number of small islands in the region - and Mrs Hoyland said she was "very encouraged" that the Indonesian ambassador, Yuri Octavian Thamrin, said it was possible the jet skier had drifted to one of them. "He definitely shares our optimism that Jeremy may be alive on an uninhabited island," she said.

An Indonesian expert is also expected to help analyse the currents in the area and a South Yorkshire Police liason officer will accompany Mrs Hoyland and her brother-in-law Nicholas during their sea and air hunt.