NARRAGANSETT –– The rescue boats and search helicopter are long gone.

Nearly a week after Tammie and Michael Oliveira fell into the rough waters off Black Point –– he went in after her in a failed rescue attempt –– their friends and relatives are asking the public for help in finding his body.

Divers, boaters, anyone . . .

“We need as many eyes as we can get,” said Rhonda Anderson, a family friend.

Tammie’s body was recovered that night.

Michael’s is still missing, presumed dead.

Yesterday, the group gathered one more time at the rocks where the young couple had apparently gone on the afternoon of Sept. 28 to watch the waves.

Their eyes fixated on the water, looking for any sign of Michael.

Nothing.

“Hey, Dave,” one screamed suddenly, turning his binoculars at everyone’s attention to a dark mass in the water.

It was a rock, by then mistaken one too many times for Michael’s body.

“Every day, I swear to God,” another said, realizing the mistake.

Then minutes later, attention shifted to another spot further south.

It was just surf over a rock. Buoys, sea gulls, and algae have played similar tricks.

“It’s so frustrating,” said Diane Cazzarro, another family friend.

“Everything you see becomes something in your mind.”

Still, Anderson said, “we won’t give up.

“It doesn’t matter how long it takes. We won’t leave him out there,” she said, wearing around her neck as a scapular a laminated photograph of Tammie and Michael.

As the sun sets and dark takes over, the group uses a generator and spotlights to continue the search, well into the night.

“If it was Mike, he would do the same thing for me,” said David Young, Michael’s brother-in-law.

“Oh, you know it,” another assented.

The emotional roller coaster had reached a high point, days earlier, when Young found a blue shirt, the same color as the one Michael was wearing the day he disappeared. It turned out to be a children’s T-shirt.

They hold hope. Hope that Tammie and Michael will be still buried together.

Tammie’s wake has been scheduled for tomorrow at the AA Mariana & Son funeral home in Providence. Her funeral has been scheduled for Monday.

marmenta@projo.com