American Surfer Daniel Bobis, goes missing in waters off Indonesia during surfing trip

Search crews are scouring waters off a remote beach in weste Indonesia for a Long Island surfer who vanished over the weekend after wiping out on a 10-foot wave.

Daniel Bobis, a 32-year-old math teacher at Long Beach High School, was surfing with his wife and a friend in West Lampung, Sumatra, at around 9 a.m. Sunday moing when he fell off a massive wave and broke his leash, sending his board washing ashore.

"Everyone is telling me a lot of people go missing here ... that within 48 hours his body will float up and wash in," his wife, Rachel Bobis, 29, told the Associated Press. "That's the only thing we can be hopeful of."

By Tuesday, a helicopter, fishing boats, dive teams and dozens of locals had joined Rachel Bobis and the couple's travel pal, Brian Lonergan, to hunt for the missing surfer.

"We combed a good mile or so of reef this moing on foot. Every available resource we have at the moment is looking. The helicopter has been out for a good 2 hours as well," said a message from Rachel Bobis that was posted on her father's Facebook page.

"We are looking and looking and the tide is coming up…so we pretty much have to wait until low tide again tonight. Pray that the swell continues to die down," the message said.

Bobis' father and stepmother were travelling to Indonesia to join the hunt, according to reports.

Because the area is remote, rescue crews took nearly a day to reach the beach after Bobis went missing.

Bobis, his wife and Lonergan, 32, had been on an exotic surfing trek through Asia since June 30.

After starting in Sri Lanka, they made their way to Indonesia about 10 days ago and were crashing with a friend who ran a local surf camp.

They were set to retu to the U.S. in mid-August.

Friends in Long Beach said Bobis was a gifted math teacher who started a surf team at Long Beach High and co-founded the Long Beach Surfers Association.

"Surfing was like his religion," Maurice Mitchell, who played in the Long Island punk band Cipher with Bobis, told the AP.

New York lawmakers Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Peter King have urged the State Department and the American Embassy in Indonesia to give the family whatever assistance they needed.

More than 500 people gathered in Long Beach to pray for Bobis and his family at a candlelight vigil on Sunday.

"I just remember Rachel telling me this was going to be their vacation before they settle down with the family. They wanted a family after this vacation," a family friend told 1010 WINS radio.