Larry Johnson was 20 when he disappeared from Carolina Beach, North Carolina, after leaving for a fishing trip on the morning of Friday, August 4, 1989. At about 5:30 a.m. he and his companion, Morris Triplett, headed for the Frying Pan Shoals, a series of shallow, shifting sandbars off the coast.

When neither man returned the next day, family members alerted the Carolina Beach Police Department and the U.S. Coast Guard. A wide-scale search and rescue operation covered a large area of the Atlantic but found no sign of Johnson, Triplett, or their vessel. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, it is presumed they were lost at sea.

The circumstances remain unresolved and the families have no closure. Does anyone remember details about that day, the boat they used, or sightings off Carolina Beach around August 4–5, 1989?