The wife of a missing South Yorkshire jet-skier who has been missing off the coast of Bali for nearly three weeks is to make a public appeal to the Indonesian and British authorities to do more to help find her husband.
Jacqui Hoyland believes her husband Jeremy could still be alive on one of the hundreds of uninhabited islands in the region.
Mrs Hoyland, 44, from Penistone, near Barnsley, says he could be surviving but without any way of contacting the rest of t
he world.
Mr Hoyland, who is the father of Ellena, 13, and Georgia, 11, has more than 10 years' experience as a jet-skier and is also an experienced administrator of the sport.
On Friday October 24 Mr Hoyland set off with four friends on borrowed jet skis for the Nusa Lembongan islet in the Indian Ocean. They were planning to return to Bali's Tanjung Benoa beach later that day.
He made a mobile phone call to say he would stay behind to help one of the party but the rest of the group returned safely without him.
He did manage to send a text message in which said he was around two miles from the coast and in difficulty. But no trace of him or his machine have been found despite a series of air-sea searches.
She flew to the region to help co-ordinate the search in the first 10 days, but has since returned to raise awareness of her husband's plight from the UK.
Mrs Hoyland has said she is disappointed more is not being done to find her husband and believes the search could have been carried out in the wrong area initially. Her family has now raised £15,000 to fund the search operation themselves.
She will make a public appeal for more help to find Mr Hoyland at a news conference to be held at Freud Communications in central London.
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