Hawaii fisherman Ron Ingraham has been reported lost at sea for the second time in five months. This time, the U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search.

Ingraham was reported missing for the first time back in December last year, turning up after just under two weeks, alive and well. Upon his return he told stories of eating raw fish to survive while on board a tattered boat for 12 days after a big storm, according to The New York Daily News.

Days after he was rescued by crewmembers of the USS Paul Hamilton, a guided-missile destroyer, he expressed his feelings that he thought he was not going to live. Ingraham had his boat towed back to Molokai at that time. The vessel had undergone a beating from 20-foot waves which knocked out his engine on the boat that was also his home.

On Friday last week another search was sent out by the Coast Guard for Ingraham after the boat he was last seen aboard washed up on shore a mile west of Lanai, Hawaii. But the search ended Monday night after they had covered more than 4,500 square miles of water.

Another man, Kenny Corder, who was aboard the same boat was rescued only a few hours after the Coast Guard started their search after receiving a mayday call. Corder was the owner of the boat and reported to the Coast Guard that there were no life-jackets on board the boat. Corder last saw Ingraham as he left him clinging to a life ring to go back to his boat for the emergency position indicating radio beacon.

Ingraham’s son Zakary Ingraham was notified in Missouri by the Coast Guard that the search was called off, an eerie follow-up to a similar call back in December. Zakary insisted the Coast Guard extend the search for his father last time.

“I held on to hope,” he said. “I knew my dad was tough. So I didn’t feel like he was gone.”