Rescue divers with the Monterey County Sheriff's Office conducted another search on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025, for Erica Fox, 55, who disappeared in the waters of Lovers Point in Pacific Grove, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025. (Monterey County Sheriff's Office via Bay City News)

Rescue divers and other personnel with the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday took advantage of the calm before the forecasted storms to search the waters off Lovers Point in Pacific Grove to look for Erica Fox, who disappeared in the water over the weekend.  

Official search efforts for Fox were called off on Monday, but the Sheriff’s Office and the Port Richmond-based Bedrock Ocean Exploration team conducted over six hours of Side Scan Sonar reading, or ocean floor mapping, by way of an autonomous underwater vehicle. By nightfall she was not located, the Sheriff’s Office said.  

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Katy St. Clair got her start in journalism by working in the classifieds department at the East Bay Express during the height of alt weeklies, then sweet talked her way into becoming staff writer, submissions editor, and music editor. She has been a columnist in the East Bay Express, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Examiner. Starting in 2015, she begrudgingly scaled the inverted pyramid at dailies such as the Vallejo Times-Herald, The Vacaville Reporter, and the Daily Republic. She has her own independent news site and blog that covers the delightfully dysfunctional town of Vallejo, California, where she also collaborates with the investigative team at Open Vallejo. A passionate advocate for people with developmental disabilities, she serves on both the Board of the Arc of Solano and the Arc of California. She lives in Vallejo.