The family of missing offshore worker Pete Phillip is still searching for closure nearly four months after his disappearance at sea—an ordeal his brother Elvis Phillip says is more devastating than what they endured during the height of the covid pandemic.

“It is worse than what we went through during the pandemic,” Elvis told Newsday by phone on April 14.

“We lost our father and sister in 2021. My sister died from sepsis and, shortly after, our father died from covid. The whole household had covid. My mother and I could not attend his funeral.”