Caught on Camera: Coast Guard Intercepts Soulmate at Sea & New Trouble for Brian Hooker
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Exclusive Coast Guard video shows the moment Soulmate was intercepted at sea, 40 miles off the coast of Florida, after Brian Hooker’s boat left the Bahamas and headed back toward the United States. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the newly obtained video of the Coast Guard stopping and seizing Soulmate, the 46-foot sailboat Brian and Lynette Hooker lived aboard before Lynette vanished in the Sea of Abaco. Ashleigh also digs into the new trouble for Brian Hooker, including GPS data, the dinghy’s alleged movements, the watch evidence, and the growing questions about what really happened the night Lynette disappeared.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious and welcome to the Northern |
| 0:09.6 | Bureau in Canada. Big, big news to bring you. In fact, big video that I want to show you. I got my |
| 0:16.7 | hands on some exclusive Coast Guard video. You know that whole FOIA thing when you ask the government |
| 0:22.6 | for stuff? The government will often give it to you unless there's a reason not to, but I wanted to know |
| 0:29.4 | what did it look like 40 miles off the coast of Florida when the Coast Guard went racing out there |
| 0:35.9 | with all its assets and grabbed Soulmate and seized |
| 0:40.0 | that vessel from the commercial captains that were bringing it back from the Bahamas, |
| 0:45.2 | presumably because Brian Hooker wanted his boat back. I've been so dying to see, you know, |
| 0:51.4 | it's basically like cops on the water where you have a Coast Guard vessel |
| 0:56.7 | with the siren going and the loudspeaker pull over, you know. I could just see it all in my |
| 1:02.1 | head like a movie. And now I don't have to see it in my head like a movie because I have it |
| 1:07.0 | for you. This is the moment that the Coast Guard investigative service, along with Coast Guard |
| 1:14.0 | members from Florida, came upon two unsuspecting commercial transfer captains, right? These |
| 1:23.0 | guys were just delivery captains who had been, you know, paid to bring the boat from the |
| 1:27.1 | Bahamas to |
| 1:27.6 | Florida. It happens all the time. And they had no idea that they had been surveilled |
| 1:34.6 | electronically from the air and from the water. And not just by me, of course, by the Coast Guard. |
| 1:41.8 | And so when it was time for that interdiction, this is what it looked like. |
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| 1:56.3 | And you play as June Parker, a woman trying to solve her sister's murder while uncovering all kinds |
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