Follow up on ballooning priest

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080425/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_flying_priest;_ylt=AgdSaRCxul3i7wuOpMN.xWC3IxIF

As Adriana posted earlier, a priest decided to strap himself to a thousand balloons and fly. Unfortunately, while the balloons were recovered in the sea, the priest was no longer attached to them, and officials were skeptical about the chances of his survival. Today, after the Brazilian Air Force covered 1900 miles of land and sea in search of the priest, they called off the search, more or less giving up the hunt. The Navy still has a helicopter and a pair of boats on the lookout, so the government has not completely abandoned him. Also, his family has chartered a private plane to conduct flyover searches; the treasurer of the parish says that "we remain as confident as ever that he is still alive," and that "our faith is unshakable."