{"id":58856,"date":"2025-11-18T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58856\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:00:16","slug":"body-of-missing-san-diego-fisherman-found-in-mexico-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58856\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of missing San Diego fisherman found in Mexico waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/96539375_1762976228323203_r.png.webp?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/96539375_1762976228323203_r.png.webp\" alt=\"Mikey Rijavec\" class=\"wp-image-355833\" style=\"width:811px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a>Popular YouTuber Mikey Rijavec holding a large fish. (Photo courtesy GoFundMe\/Gregory Rijavec)<\/p>\n<p>The Ocean Beach community is mourning the loss of beloved fisherman and YouTuber Mikey Rijavec, known for his channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCotRCdtuBZ-QotKCREelD4w\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SD Fish and Sips<\/a>, whose body was found days after issuing a distress call.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rijavec set out from the coast of Baja California, Mexico, on Nov. 11 for what was supposed to be just a routine day for him. Around 2:30 p.m., he made a mayday call, reporting engine trouble about eight miles from shore. <\/p>\n<p>Moments later, the call went silent.<\/p>\n<p>Searchers later found his 14-foot skiff drifting five miles from land, its outboard motor missing. The discovery sparked a massive rescue effort, uniting the Mexican Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, and dozens of private boats from both sides of the border.<\/p>\n<p>His brother Gregory Rijavec quickly launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-search-efforts-for-mikey-sd-fish-and-sips\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> campaign to fund fuel and aircraft for the search, writing that the community was \u201cscrambling to use all resources available\u201d to bring Mikey home. Donations and messages from concerned family, friends and fans poured in, and they raised over $40,000.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 17, their fears were confirmed when Rijavec\u2019s body was found near San Crist\u00f3bal in Baja California Sur.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/ocean-beach-fisherman-youtuber-baja-california-body-found\/3932797\/?amp=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC San Diego<\/a>, Phil Friedman, a fellow angler, podcaster and close friend of the missing boater, confirmed that he had received the news from Rijavec\u2019s father.<\/p>\n<p>He said through SD Fish and Sips, Mikey shared his passion for fishing, conservation, adventure, and building a loyal following that extended far beyond San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s an adventurer. He pushes the envelope. That\u2019s part of what we love about him,\u201c Friedman said.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Popular YouTuber Mikey Rijavec holding a large fish. (Photo courtesy GoFundMe\/Gregory Rijavec) The Ocean Beach community is mourning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1697,6881,2457,35245,35912,74,76,75,2278],"class_list":{"0":"post-58856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-baja-california","9":"tag-body-found","10":"tag-mexico","11":"tag-mikey-rijavec","12":"tag-missing-fisherman","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-san-diego-headlines","15":"tag-san-diego-news","16":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}