The Coast Guard has taken custody of the Hookers' dinghy amid the new search for Lynette Hooker, an American woman who went overboard in the Bahamas and vanished two months ago.

On the evening of April 4, Lynette and Brian Hooker were aboard a dinghy in the Bahamas making their way to the sailboat they lived on, “Soulmate.”

After six days of searching by police and volunteers, authorities announced that a child's body dressed in “similar clothes” was found Thursday in an out-of-the-way location on a farm in the southwest...