Sean Poffenbarger, 45, disappeared in the spring of 2018 while traveling by skiff from Sitka toward Saook Point. He was last seen near Goose Cove wearing a red and black Cabela’s guide wear coat and bibs. His overturned 18-foot skiff was later located with debris along the shoreline of Goose Cove; an inReach satellite device on his vessel activated and sent a distress alert on a Sunday evening, prompting the Alaska State Troopers to notify the U.S. Coast Guard.

Searchers deployed an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Sitka, which sighted the overturned boat and recovered the body of Sean Elliot, 49, of Elfin Cove, on a Goose Cove beach. Despite aerial searches and a rescue swimmer, Sean Poffenbarger was not found and the search was eventually suspended. He is missing and presumed to have drowned after the skiff overturned.

If anyone was in the Saook Point or Goose Cove area that spring of 2018 or has information about that voyage or Poffenbarger’s movements, please come forward.