Dead for sure.

Now that the monitoring devices were in place; Blake wasted no time leaving the ocean and returning to land.

Throughout the short journey back to land, the feeling of something appearing out of nowhere and swallowing his ship whole continuously disturbed him. It was only when his shoes touch the sand of the Sunset beach that he let out a sigh of relief.

"Now that is down, it is time to keep an eye on the monitoring devices." 

The entire group quickly returned to the Square where ash corps constantly monitored the live footage from the monitoring devices.

'I wonder how long I would have to stay without finding anything before the case gets handed to someone else.' Blake thought after more than 3 hours of watching one of the screens connected to the monitoring device.