Shawna Jones-Smith just wants her son back.

Tuesday morning, she stared across the shimmering waters of Crescent Harbor and asked why nobody was out there looking for her son.

“I’m not leaving here without my son,” she said. “Or at least until I’m satisfied that I did everything I could to find him.”

Keiyia Jones, a 33-year-old petty officer second class at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, disappeared while swimming ashore in the harbor Aug. 8 after the boat he was in sank.

Jones and a 24-year-old woman were crabbing in an old 14-foot fiberglass boat when it started taking on water. The woman managed to swim to shore but lost sight of him in the waves.

His mother said the Navy now considers him “presumed dead.”

His family members said they are upset that the Navy gave up on the search and are doing everything they can to either pressure officials to do more or find another way to search the water.

Jones-Smith said her niece set up a GoFundMe website to raise money to fund a search. Family members and friends are handing out flyers around Whidbey Island with information about the tragedy.

Jones-Smith said she was told at a meeting with Navy officials this week that there’s a type of sonar that would be able to find her son’s body, but that it’s in San Diego.

“If they can get troops to Afghanistan in 24 hours, surely they could get a piece of equipment from San Diego,” she said.

Navy officials, however, said they’ve done everything they can do.

After the Coast Guard called off the initial eight-hour search, the Navy’s Northwest Explosive Ord-nance Disposal unit conducted a four-day search that included unmanned underwater vehicles and divers, said Mike Welding, NAS Whidbey spokesman.

EOD found the boat in 37 feet of water. It wasn’t broken up, as the woman initially reported.

Island County Sheriff Mark Brown said that it likely appeared to the woman that the boat broke apart as it took on water and sank. His office also continued the search both on the water and the beach for a few days, but didn’t find anything.

Welding described the length of the search as “pretty extensive.” Because of tides and currents in Crescent Harbor, they have no way of knowing where the body may have drifted, he explained.

He said Navy personnel extend their thoughts and prayers to the family and friends of the missing man.

Jones’ mother and sister, Kiarni Jones, flew in from Chicago after hearing about the tragedy.

They said that they were immediately disappointed in the lack of support from Navy officials. Their church and friends helped the family travel to Whidbey Island because Navy officials said they couldn’t help with that.

Jones-Smith said the Navy officials focused on paperwork and tried to get her to sign documents to get benefits. She refused.

“They just want us to go home,” she said.

In contrast, the family members said they got a lot more of their questions answered from the sheriff’s office.

Keiyia Jones was doing what he loved most when tragedy struck, which is fishing.

His sister, Kiarni Jones, said he learned to fish from his grandmother when he was just 4 years old. The family would travel to Minnesota each summer to fish. She used to tease him when they were young that he would marry a fish and name his babies “Guppy” and “Walleye.”

They both enlisted in the Navy 10 years ago.

“I wanted to go in. He wasn’t so sure,” she said. “But when the Navy told him he could fish off an aircraft carrier, he was hooked.”

In addition to fish, Keiyia Jones simply liked people. His friends and family, including his roommate Brittany Douthit, described him as the kind of guy that everyone knew and liked. He was friendly and kind and would stop to offer kind words to those around him.

Tuesday afternoon, Shawna Jones-Smith said she was shocked to hear from a Navy official that they were notifying her son’s father and brother after they arrived at the airport that he was presumed dead.

“They are going to lose it,” she said, questioning why the Navy would do such an insensitive thing at a public airport.

“No one cares. He was just a number to them.”