In the autumn of 1994, 29-year-old Robert Howard Simonsen of Sitka, Alaska, vanished while serving as skipper of the 105-foot crabber F/V Fierce Competitor. On October 26, 1994, the vessel was underway from Warrenton, Oregon, to King Cove, Alaska, with five people aboard: Robert Simonsen, his wife Vicki Rowe-Simonsen, and crew members Keithly Young, Gordon Young, and Larry Jones. The group disappeared in the Gulf of Alaska after an EPIRB signal prompted a search.

Searchers located the boat’s life raft about 450 miles southeast of Kodiak, roughly 50 miles from the EPIRB’s origin, but saw no signs of life and could not retrieve the raft because of severe weather. The vessel and all five aboard were never found, and the Alaska State Troopers’ investigation did not reach a conclusive explanation. The families were left without definitive evidence or closure.

Did anyone on the route between Warrenton and King Cove see the Fierce Competitor or the crew around October 26, 1994?