His sister asks for privacy now in order for the family to grieve. A GoFundMe page that was set up to help the search for Rob Stewart has raised more than $189,000. "Unfortunately it is with a heavy heart that I share Rob has been found. My friend. Stewart's family issued a brief written statement Friday evening in response to the announcement by the U.S. Coast Guard that it had found a body. Stewart went missing off the coast of the Florida Keys in January. The search for Stewart covered more than 14,000 square kilometres — an area the size of Connecticut, Coast Guard Capt. The family of Toronto filmmaker Rob Stewart says his body was "found peacefully in the ocean" Friday after he disappeared Tuesday while diving in the Florida Keys. The U.S. Coast Guard is on the scene Wednesday morning to search for Stewart, 37, who vanished while diving near Islamorada in the Florida Keys, a chain of islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, located nearly 200 kilometres off the state's southern tip. Rob Stewart, "Sharkwater" filmmaker, is missing. #Sharkwater @teamsharkwater ....L pic.twitter.com/WzGjPe9QUN, #Sharks just lost their greatest #champion. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. "There are no words," says a Facebook post by Stewart's sister Alexandra. Stewart was in Florida filming a follow up movie to his 2006 documentary Sharkwater, called Sharkwater Extinction. In January the oceans lost a true champion. Stewart and one of his team members resurfaced at approximately 5:15 in the afternoon on Tuesday. Rob Stewart, the Canadian filmmaker who became famous for his documentary “Sharkwater,” died while filming “Sharkwater Extinction” at the Queen of Nassau wreck off the coast of Islamorada. Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. My heartfelt sympathies go out to family & friends of #RobStewart. Urgent help is needed. 'Sharkwater' Director Goes Missing… Heartbroken Robert Stewart broke down as he came face to face with Andrew Lindo, who is accused of battering and stabbing to death Miss Stewart, 30, and then stowing her in a holdall in his garage. Sharkwater premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and has since won more than 40 awards at film festivals around the world. However at the age of 17 he became badly injured while playing hockey and he lost a kidney. A search is underway for Rob Stewart, the award-winning shark filmmaker who disappeared Tuesday while working on his next shark documentary in the Florida Keys. 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