The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search that began Sunday of the missing kayaker last seen near Kapa'a Beach Park on the Big Island.

Crews using air and surface ships have searched more than 22,000 square miles, an area five times larger than the Big Island. Mainly, the search has focused on the shoreline of the North Kohala District, between the Big Island and Maui and the waters southwest of the Big Island.

Miguel Ferrufino, 26, was last seen on Saturday when he went on a paddling excursion in his yellow boat wearing multi-colored shorts and a dark-blue T-shirt, authorities said.

Firefighters with the Hawai'i Fire Department have conducted 49 separate searches over the past five days, in addition to crews on board the P-3 Orion, based at Marine Crops Base Hawaii in Kane'ohe, a C-130 from the Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point, the Coast Guard Cutter Galveston Island, the Civil Air Patrol and the Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Anyone with information on the missing kayaker should call the Coast Guard at 808-842-2600.