A biologist on the island examined Luna and found her to be a bit thin, but otherwise healthy.
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“He told us Luna was a very powerful swimmer and that he was 90 percent sure she’d head for shore”, Sandy DeMunnik, public affairs officer for the US Navy’s Naval Base Coronado, told ABC.
Haworth searched the waters for about two days and Navy staff searched the island for about a week but found no sign of Luna.
Conner Lamb carries Luna, a 1 1/2-year-old dog that fell off a fishing boat in February and found Tuesday on Navy-owned San Clemente Island.. He didn’t see her in the water, and they were 75 miles off the coast of San Diego. The Navy continued its search across the island for another week, both on land and from the air, but she blended right in to the landscape because of her tan and black coat, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
“It looks like she was surviving on rodents and dead fish that had washed up”.
Luna was flown to the mainland the following day, and reunited with her owner.
Officials called Haworth, who was out of state, working in the middle of a lake. DeMunnik said the dog was given a new tag as a souvenir.
Luna, meanwhile, has a souvenir of the experience.
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The San Diego fisherman presumed Luna was dead 10 days after she went missing, posting photos of the dog on Facebook and writing “RIP Luna”. The island is a Navy training base. Along with her name it has the words “Keep the Faith”, a reference to a survival course taught on the island.
